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

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

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 are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

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

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

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

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

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

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

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. 

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

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