Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Revolutions never go backward.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.