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

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

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

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

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

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

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.

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. 

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.