Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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.

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

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. 

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

Revolutions never go backward.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.