French Revolution Quotes
75 quotes by 57 authors
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The…
— Oscar Wilde
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...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789...…
— Karl Marx
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Father Col, an intrepid defender of the Faith during the French Revolution and the pastor of Bourg-d'Oisans where these good people were married [M/M Eymard],…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live…
— H.G. Wells
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Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of…
— Raya Dunayevskaya
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It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of…
— Charles Alexandre de Calonne
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The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.
— Jacques Necker
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It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
— Camille Desmoulins
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I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
— Marie Antoinette
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Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted…
— Francois Furet
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[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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