I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The deepest cause which made the French Revolution so disastrous to liberty was its theory of equality. Liberty was the watchword of… — Anonymous 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
“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“War is becoming an anachronism; if we have battled in every part of the continent it was because two opposing social orders… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Jefferson's ambivalence toward the French Revolution matters. As a key founder of the American republic, he bridges the moderate and radical Enlightenments.… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you that Max feels the same basic contempt for you as you do for him?” “He feels… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“History is the memory of states,' wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored , in which he proceeded to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all… — Harvey Cox 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
People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Provence and Artois will be back. Antoinette. She will resume her state. The priests will be back. Children now in their cradles… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Abroad? Oh no. I went to England in ’91, and you stood in the garden at Fontenay and berated me.” He shook… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Bakers can’t bake bread because they can’t get flour. So why do people burn wheat fields and kill bakers when it’s their… — Debra Borchert Copy Share Image
“Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757–1834), French soldier and statesman. He fought alongside the American colonists in… — Angus Stevenson Copy Share Image
“To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion.” — Friedrich A. Hayek 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
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille. — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“Davy’s work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
