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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

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. 

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.