“If I lose, it will not mean that it was impossible to win.”

The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

To execute a man we don’t need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. It’s that simple.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.

Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look’d upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.