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.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.