The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant. — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
“Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“I want to make love to the French Revolution. Or maybe just get some head from Robespierre.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Of course I have had to rearrange the text a bit— bugger about with it, as Hébert would say.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us,… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in… — Victor Hugo 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
“God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“French Revolution- all them fellas the figgered her out got their heads chopped off. Always that way, jus as natural as rain.… — Anonymous 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
“Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
“Do you know Camille Desmoulins?” he asked. “Have you seen him? He’s one of these law-school boys. Never used anything more dangerous… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else… — Anonymous 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
It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector.… — Kevin Brownlow 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“BOTSWANA, CHINA, and the U.S. South, just like the Glorious Revolution in England, the French Revolution, and the Meiji Restoration in Japan,… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“[On the eve of the French Revolution:] It is impossible to imagine a more disorderly Assembly. They neither reason, examine, nor discuss.… — Gouverneur Morris 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
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered. — Georges Couthon Copy Share Image
“There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I do no damage. This is damage, this.” He picked up a paper from Camille’s desk. “I can’t read your writing, but… — Hilary Mantel 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 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
“I tell you, dear Citizen Camille—it’s not the deaths I can’t stand. It’s the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.” — Hilary Mantel 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
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
![“[On the eve of the French Revolution:] It is impossible to imagine a more disorderly Assembly. They neither reason, examine, nor discuss. They clap those whom they approve and hiss those whom they disapprove. . . . Everything almost is elective, and consequently no one obeys. It is an anarchy…” quote by Gouverneur Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/gouverneur-morris-26042_freedom_on-the-eve-of-the-french-revolution-it-i_1720772.png)
