Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

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.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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. 

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.

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.

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.