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

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. 

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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

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 men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.