When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep… — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau 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
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. — Vladimir Lenin 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
“To say my day was not going well, would be like saying the French Revolution had been a bit troublesome for Marie… — Nichole Chase Copy Share Image
I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a… — Georges Danton 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
My historical knowledge of the French Revolution is based on 17 viewings of History of the World, Part I. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Messengers wait outside the door, to carry urgent orders for release. It is difficult, when the pen skips over a name, to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“This may interest you. A letter from my dear cousin Fouquier-Tinville.” Camille cast an eye over his relative’s best handwriting. “Squirm, flattery,… — Hilary Mantel 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
“The late modern era has seen unprecedented levels not only of violence and horror, but also of peace and tranquillity. Charles Dickens… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Bastille, where I live, is best known as the site where the infamous prison was seized and ransacked by the masses,… — David Lebovitz Copy Share Image
“The Enlightened spirit is not like some safe cracker whose ear is pressed to the metal while his fingers imperceptibly turn a… — Joshua Gibbs 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
“...As the evening wore on (the supper did not end until seven in the morning), the public were admitted to watch the… — Giles MacDonogh Copy Share Image
“There are two main traditions of English writing: the one of perfect liberty, that of Chaucer and Shakespeare, completely outspoken, with a… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“Gothic is the genre of fear. Our fascination with it is almost always revived during times of instability and panic. In the… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin… — Richard J. Evans 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
“Jefferson's ambivalence toward the French Revolution matters. As a key founder of the American republic, he bridges the moderate and radical Enlightenments.… — Kim R. Holmes 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 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
“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
“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
“But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and… — Camille Desmoulins 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
“CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves… — Charles Alexandre de Calonne Copy Share Image
I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
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
“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 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
