Louis Auguste Blanqui

"We are no longer in ’93! We are in 1848!The tricolor flag is no longer the flag of the Republic. It’s that of Louis-Philippe and of the monarchy.It’s the tricolor flag that presided over the massacres…"

"A revolution determines, within the social body, an instantaneous process of reorganisation akin to the tumultuous combinations of the elements of a dissolved body that then tend to recompose themselv…"

"For in the end what is at issue in this idea of the cooperative is as clear as day. It is a means of preparing the daily bourgeois stew at all costs, divorced from any political thought, from any revo…"

"He who has iron, has bread. People bow down before bayonets; a disarmed crowd is swept aside. But a France bristling with workers in arms means the advent of socialism. In the presence of armed prolet…"

"Humanity ... is never stationary. Its progressive march leads it to equality. Its regressive march goes back through every stage of privilege to human slavery, the final word of the right to property."

"I am accused of having told thirty million French people, proletarians like me, that they had the right to live."

"Students, young people, have the right to join together in order to guide their efforts towards a common goal, and they will use this right. As for their goal, it is simple: for them it is a matter of…"