Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant. — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
“If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine.” — Robin Benway 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
I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion.” — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“It would mean Morny had no loyalty at all to Louis XVIII or the constitutional monarchy or anything else he has swon… — Lynn Messina Copy Share Image
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions… — John Marshall 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
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
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
“{ 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
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
“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
“And in time"-his voice rose-"there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution… — Chris Hayes 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
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
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one… — Terry Eagleton 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 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
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
“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
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed… — Éliphas Lévi 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
“This entails certain corollaries on which true individualism once more stands in sharp opposition to the false individualism of the rationalistic type.… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“The idea of the “people,” as the fount of legitimate order ... has been of some service to the left-liberal intellectual in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“My father doesn’t have views. He would like to, but he can’t take the risk.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The Revolution is your bride,” he said. “As the Church is the Bride of Christ.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has… — Grace Lee Boggs 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
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
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
“...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 "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
