If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.
The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.
Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.
Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.