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 Robespierre women (as one tended to think of them now) were all on display. Madame looked actively, rather intimidatingly benevolent; it… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to… — Roger Scruton 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
“Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757–1834), French soldier and statesman. He fought alongside the American colonists in… — Angus Stevenson 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 disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot 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
“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
“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of… — Victor Hugo 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
“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“The topic of women’s participation in the French Revolution has generally received little attention from historians, who have displayed a tendency to… — Shirley Elson-Roessler Copy Share Image
“After the defeat of the German Revolution in 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism. Worship of State and Race… — Hugh Seton-Watson Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote,… — Stephen M. Ward 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 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
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
“Puritans had sought to eliminate Christmas mince pies as “idolatry in crust”; the minions of the French Revolution came down hard on… — Gerry Bowler Copy Share Image
“You would save them. If you could.” “No. There are periods in revolution when to live is a crime, and people must… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate… — Oscar Wilde 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 printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“God knows,” Charpentier said, “I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our… — Margaret Thatcher 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
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes… This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just 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
“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
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
“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
“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
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
![“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , November 4…” quote by John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/john-adams-529_calamity_this-society-jesuits-has-been-a-greater_2706641.jpg)
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