...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“The dominant feeling is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The judicial methods used by the Communists in our day are the same as those of the Holy Inquisition. To secure the… — Anton U. Brown Copy Share Image
“While the Chinese Red Guard also rooted out “capitalist roaders” during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, it resulted in… — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
“There was terror in each and every one of the people on that beautiful beach and on that breathtakingly beautiful evening. Terror… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Why did the humanitarian philosophy of eighteenth century Europe usher in the Reign of Terror? It did not happen by chance; it… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The guys from the board are at a smaller bonfire near the tree line. They’re laughing. Talking shit. Enjoying the fact that… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin,… — W. Averell Harriman 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
It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is… — Curtis Sliwa Copy Share Image
“It is estimated that Josef Stalin killed more than twenty million people during his reign of terror. The Baltic states of Lithuania,… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“J'ai vécu. (Translation: I have survived or I existed.) [After the Reign of Terror, when asked what he had done during that… — Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès Copy Share Image
“Chinese Red Guard also rooted out “capitalist roaders” during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, it resulted in a chaotic… — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed… — Guy Endore Copy Share Image
“The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler boasted, would endure for a thousand years,9 and in Nazi parlance… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The official death toll of the Osage Reign of Terror had climbed to at least twenty-four members of the tribe.” — David Grann Copy Share Image