The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.