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

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.

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

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

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.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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.

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

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

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.