“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
“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“The leaders of the French Revolution and, subsequently, Napoleon exported the revolution to these lands, destroying absolutism, ending feudal land relations, abolishing… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My historical knowledge of the French Revolution is based on 17 viewings of History of the World, Part I. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The lives of thousands of young Frenchmen were ready for this literary bath of blood and sentiment in the 1830's. Their fathers… — Francis Steegmuller Copy Share Image
“The war, like all wars, was proving more expensive for the Bourbons than planned. Since the alliance, France had advanced to the… — Barbara W. Tuchman 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
“The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“Suppose he found that persistent unsparing voice at his elbow one day, claiming that Danton lacked probity; he had an answer, pat,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel 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
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
“Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of… — Bart Schultz Copy Share Image
“That's sort of what happened with Cassie and me. I guess I was Goya, just doing my thing, and she was the… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“The prominent British statesman and scholar Edmund Burke (1729–1797) emphasized another fundamental characteristic of the civil society—valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
“Three of the revolutions," Bermuda said, "the French, the Russian, and the American, were true only in the beginning. Just true in… — Allan Dare Pearce 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
“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
