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

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

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

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.

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

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.

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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