To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

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. 

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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

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

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

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

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.