Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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. 

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

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

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.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.

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

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

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

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