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.

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

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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

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

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

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.