Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

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. 

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

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.

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

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

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