In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

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.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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

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.

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