The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

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.

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

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.