The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

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

— Julius Evola

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

“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 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

“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 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

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

“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

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

— William Doyle

“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

“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

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

“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite because it…

— Sarah Vowell

“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and preen as…

— Lynn Messina

“It’s a question of legacy. Who else will do this work but us? The men who rarely include them in retrospectives? The visitors who…

— Stephanie Dupal