Comrades, There Is No True Social Revolution

The Spirit Is Smothered, As It Were, By Ignorance, But So Soon As Ignorance Is Destroyed, Spirit Shine Forth, Like The Sun When Released From Clouds.

You Cannot Carry Out Fundamental Change Without A Certain Amount Of Madness. In This Case, It Comes From Nonconformity, The Courage To Turn Your Back On The Old Formulas, The Courage To Invent The Future. It Took The Madmen Of Yesterday For Us To Be Able To Act With Extreme Clarity Today. I Want To Be One Of Those Madmen. We Must Dare To Invent The Future.

It's Really A Pity That There Are Observers Who View Political Events Like Comic Strips. There Has To Be A Zorro, There Has To Be A Star. No, The Problem Of Upper Volta Is More Serious Than That. It Was A Grave Mistake To Have Looked For A Man, A Star, At All Costs, To The Point Of Creating One, That Is, To The Point Of Attributing The Ownership Of The Event To Captain Sankara, Who Must Have Been The Brains, Etc.

I Want People To Remember Me As Someone Whose Life Has Been Helpful To Humanity.

You Cannot Carry Out Fundamental Change Without A Certain Amount Of Madness.