“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion.” — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
“If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine.” — Robin Benway 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
“I'd heard him tell a woman who complained he never helped her achieve orgasm, that she should treasure the memory of her… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
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 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
“The nobility above all could not understand how it could possibly regenerate itself in assemblies where no provision had been made for… — Emmanuel Sieyés Copy Share Image
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
“Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Who are the Brissotins? A good question. You see, if you accuse people of a crime (for example, and especially, conspiracy) and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“All throughout the Christian ages, and especially since the French Revolution, the Western world has been haunted by the idea of freedom… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and… — Lynn Messina Copy Share Image
“Collot is back from Lyon, did you know? He had finished his work, as he describes it. His path of righteousness is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” she said. “Are you drunk?” She noticed what a split second it took for him to flare into aggression. “Do… — 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
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
“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
“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
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They… — Novalis 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Sara,” she said, “do you think you can bear living here?” Sara looked round also. “If I pretend it’s quite different, I… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“The Republic is six months old, and it’s flying apart. It has no cohesive force—only a monarchy has that. Surely you can… — 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
“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
“May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into “permanent session” — what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he’d keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian… — Walter Kasper 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 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/quotes/img-quotes/906/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel_french-revolution_it-has-been-said-that-the-french-revolut_297624.jpg)
