“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
“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
[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
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood. — Georges Danton 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
“Unwittingly, then, the philosophers of the Enlightenment instigated the end of ancien régimes everywhere – in thought if not in fact. They… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it… — Jennifer Donnelly 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
“People said— though this felt like a heresy— that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“It is the observer of the pun that makes it, my dear Brumm. Of course, when the word is distorted, as in… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
“Dariya and I used to play French Revolution when we were little. We'd take turns being Marie Antoinette. Our grandmamma caught us… — Robin Bridges 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
“Again, take someone who’s crippled or deformed; they can’t be tied to the plank without a lot of sweat and heaving, and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector.… — Kevin Brownlow Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Georges was in a rage. It is a spectacle to comtemplate, his rage. He tore off his cravat, strode about the room,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be… — Francois-Noel Babeuf 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
“BOTSWANA, CHINA, and the U.S. South, just like the Glorious Revolution in England, the French Revolution, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan,… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in… — Raya Dunayevskaya Copy Share Image
...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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