French Revolution Quotes

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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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
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
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — Jacques Necker
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
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille. — Camille Desmoulins
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
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
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau. — Marie Antoinette
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
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
[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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