When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the…

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should…

— John Lennon

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

“We’re making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often the things…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote, Mead “urged…

— Stephen M. Ward

“They are subjected to all manner of taxes: the tithe, the hearth tax and the capitation tax. When all those are paid, they are…

— Simon Scarrow

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

— William Doyle

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own…

— Iwan Goll

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

“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very movement, closed…

— Victor Hugo

“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another. Francisco de…

— Chris Hedges

“The nobility above all could not understand how it could possibly regenerate itself in assemblies where no provision had been made for a supply…

— Emmanuel Sieyés

“Your mother, my mother, and mother of pearl walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “Hello, dad, you look more like whiskey than…

— Jarod Kintz

The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves,…

— Daniel Barenboim

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

— Julius Evola