Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

Revolutions never go backward.

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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.