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.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

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 most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

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

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

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

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

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

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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