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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

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.

All revolutions devour their own children.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

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

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.

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

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

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

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.