The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“It’s all right for you, you and Danton. I have to go and stutter for two hours at the Jacobins and probably… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“All throughout the Christian ages, and especially since the French Revolution, the Western world has been haunted by the idea of freedom… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Who are the Brissotins? A good question. You see, if you accuse people of a crime (for example, and especially, conspiracy) and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know,… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
“One might say that romance with revolution died with Solzhenitsyn. The line from Bastille to the gulag is not straight, but the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure… — Melanie Randolph Miller Copy Share Image
“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as of something going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The prominent British statesman and scholar Edmund Burke (1729–1797) emphasized another fundamental characteristic of the civil society—valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We should say to the West: "You have been supporting dictators for too many years. Don't expect the people to introduce democracy… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Three of the revolutions," Bermuda said, "the French, the Russian, and the American, were true only in the beginning. Just true in… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to… — Pope Pius VI Copy Share Image
“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections!… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
“You must, of course. Robespierre doesn’t lie or cheat or steal, doesn’t get drunk, doesn’t fornicate—overmuch. He’s not a hedonist or a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day,… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“Did you know there are three palaces at Versailles? How many does one family need when thousands have no homes? I don’t… — Debra Borchert Copy Share Image
“There is no need for unanimity,” Saint- Just said. “It would have been desirable, but let’s get on. There are only two… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people… — Yasutaka Tsutsui Copy Share Image
“Men who, in the best of circumstances and with all the ability to dictate all that would have been just, fine, and… — Emmanuel Sieyés Copy Share Image
![“[T]he great decided effective Majority is now for the Republic," he told Jefferson in late October 1792, but whether it would endure for even six months "must depend on the Form of Government which shall be presented by the Convention" and whether it could "strike out that happy Mean which secures…” quote by Melanie Randolph Miller](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c5e/melanie-randolph-miller-190458_divine-providence_t-he-great-decided-effective-majority-is_1307754.jpg)
![“[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.” quote by Jean-Paul Marat](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf9/jean-paul-marat-33448_action_we-need-someone-bold-to-put-himself-at-t_1223177.jpg)
![“In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess” quote by Pope Pius VI](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/945/pope-pius-vi-104319_deceiving_in-fact-after-having-abolished-the-monar_3201703.jpg)
