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

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

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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

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

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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.