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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

Revolutions never go backward.

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 are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

If not us, who? If not now, when?

All revolutions devour their own children.

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.

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

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.