Revolutionary Quotes

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.