“CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Davy’s work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“I tell you, dear Citizen Camille—it’s not the deaths I can’t stand. It’s the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“And in time"-his voice rose-"there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Georges told me he would be back, and I have no reason to disbelieve him—but perhaps you’d like to sit down here… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The theories of the French revolutionaries, as summarized by historian Roger Hancock, were founded on "respect for no humanity except that which… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and… — Lynn Messina Copy Share Image
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Collot is back from Lyon, did you know? He had finished his work, as he describes it. His path of righteousness is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“The leaders of the French Revolution and, subsequently, Napoleon exported the revolution to these lands, destroying absolutism, ending feudal land relations, abolishing… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“The Jacobin Club got its name in a roundabout way. Originally a group of Bretons who came to Versailles to attend the… — Bernardine Kielty Copy Share Image
“Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote,… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“After the defeat of the German Revolution in 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism. Worship of State and Race… — Hugh Seton-Watson Copy Share Image
“Suppose he found that persistent unsparing voice at his elbow one day, claiming that Danton lacked probity; he had an answer, pat,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“I do no damage. This is damage, this.” He picked up a paper from Camille’s desk. “I can’t read your writing, but… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Robespierre has never forgiven his friends the injuries he has done them, nor the kindnesses he has received from them, nor the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us,… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a… — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
“To say my day was not going well, would be like saying the French Revolution had been a bit troublesome for Marie… — Nichole Chase Copy Share Image
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep… — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
![“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality possessing attributes peculiar to the gods of never having to answer for their actions and never making a mistake. Their wishes must be humbly acceded to…” quote by Gustave Le Bon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eb6/gustave-le-bon-10163_character_to-the-jacobins-of-this-epoch-the-french_220492.jpg)
