Revolution Quote by Barbara Tuchman Download Open image “Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.” — Barbara Tuchman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Every Success Revolution Success Successful Time
“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the tyrants but… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously the most… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I… — Patrick M. Byrne Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for a government… — Njau Kihia Copy Share Image
“As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The plight of the Baha'i community in Iran has served as a backdrop to my life growing up in London, particularly since the Islamic… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
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