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

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

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

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

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

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

I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

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

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.

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.

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 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.