How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
“Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“French Revolution- all them fellas the figgered her out got their heads chopped off. Always that way, jus as natural as rain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
“So we call it “the estate tax,” which sounds very adult and respectable and vaguely French Revolution. Nobody really thinks of themselves… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of… — Bart Schultz Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
“I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
[John Adams and Tomas Jefferson] shared experience in 1775 - 1776 in bringing about the separation from Britain and their service in… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“Law of Suspects. Suspects are those: who have in any way aided tyranny (royal tyranny, Brissotin tyranny...); who cannot show that they… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“In the Convention tomorrow I shall put him up to confront Saint-Just. Imagine it. Our man the picture of starched rectitude, and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“So at midnight, the heart of the metropolis of modern civilization was secretly trod by this jaunty barbarian in broadcloth; a sort… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“More recently, Lucas described a visit in Europe, after the release of Revenge of the Sith, “with a dozen reporters, and the… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“They are subjected to all manner of taxes: the tithe, the hearth tax and the capitation tax. When all those are paid,… — Simon Scarrow Copy Share Image
“Christianity - and that is its greatest merit - has somewhat mitigated that brutal Germanic love of war, but it could not… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“Your mother, my mother, and mother of pearl walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “Hello, dad, you look more like… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“It’s a question of legacy. Who else will do this work but us? The men who rarely include them in retrospectives? The… — Stephanie Dupal Copy Share Image
“He stepped back, looked up. Cut into the stone above his head were the words RUE MARAT. For a moment he had… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“When the Planters fled from Haiti, they established coffee farms or cafetales, as part of their newly formed Plantation. Generally, coffee profits… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“I wonder how difficult it would be to just make a list of all the top blood purists and kill them. They'd… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Saint-Just read for the next two hours his report on the plots of the Dantonist faction. He had imagined, when he wrote… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But further, Hobbesian individualism required that traditional independent social authorities be eliminated or suppressed. Benjamin Constant, who was a keen observer of… — Donald W. Livingston Copy Share Image
“Talking to Robespierre, one tried to make the right noises; but what is right, these days? Address yourself to the militant, and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the French revolution resulted from philosophy, and it is not without reason that philosophy has been called… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution gave history its first instance of modern leftist illiberalism -- an embrace of tyranny in the name of the… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“The Jesuits’ strategy became clear to us when we discovered Father Barruel. Between 1797 and 1798, in response to the French Revolution,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“At the top of the Queen’s Staircase at the Tuileries, there is a series of communicating chambers, crowded every day with clerks,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pretty word. Democracy is a captivating magic. The oppressed classes always wanted and the oppressing ones always promised a… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
![“How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.” quote by Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/544/adam-hochschild-4138_chekhov_how-many-really-great-writers-are-there_1459719.jpg)
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![“Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were married [M/M Eymard], had foretold to them that they would have a son who would become a priest and founder of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament. During the…” quote by Peter Julian Eymard](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9bd/peter-julian-eymard-11275_blessed_father-col-an-intrepid-defender-of-the-f_2277309.jpg)
![“It has been said that the French revolution resulted from philosophy, and it is not without reason that philosophy has been called Weltweisheit [world wisdom]; for it is not only truth in and for itself, as the pure essence of things, but also truth in its living form as exhibited in the affairs…” quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/906/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel_french-revolution_it-has-been-said-that-the-french-revolut_297624.png)
