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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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.

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. 

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

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.