It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite… — Sarah Vowell 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
“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and… — Stanley Loomis 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
“Commoners already paid the lion’s share of national taxes and, because of these old feudal records, they now also paid a whole… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
“On March 8 Danton mounted the tribune of the Convention. The patriots never forgot the shock of his sudden appearance, nor his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“Christianity — and that is its greatest merit — has somewhat mitigated that brutal German love of war, but it could not… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Life’s going to change. You thought it already had? Not nearly as much as it’s going to change now. Everything you disapprove… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“All in all, French armies wrought much suffering in Europe, but they also radically changed the lay of the land. In much… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“On one occasion she had spoken heatedly about the French Revolution, saying it had been little better than the Nazis. Her great-aunt… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
“People said— though this felt like a heresy— that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want… — Margaret Thatcher 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
“...more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a… — Michael Coren 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
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 Copy Share Image
“A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“{ Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier 's execution during the French Revolution } Only a moment to cut off that… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
“The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country— ask him how he weighs… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and… — Francois Furet 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
The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
“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
“The Jacobin Club got its name in a roundabout way. Originally a group of Bretons who came to Versailles to attend the… — Bernardine Kielty Copy Share Image
“To narrow natural rights to such neat slogans as "liberty, equality, fraternity" or "life, liberty, property," . . . was to ignore… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Here is everything I know about France: Madeline and Amelie and Moulin Rouge. The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, although… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Hérault, Fabre thinks: and his mind drifts back—as it tends to, these days— to the Café du Foy. He’d been giving readings… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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