Best French Revolution Sayings

75 French Revolution quotes by 54 unique authors

Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the… — Victor Hugo
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on… — Rod Parsley
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of… — Terry Eagleton
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. — John Corigliano
It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired… — Benjamin Disraeli
We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small… — H. L. Mencken
The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The… — Andrew Greeley
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which… — Charles Caleb Colton
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels… — Hilary Mantel
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — Maximilien Robespierre
The French revolution taught us the rights of man. — Thomas Sankara
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. — Randall Terry
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the… — Jennifer Donnelly
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. — Julius Evola
It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk… — Isak Dinesen
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years. — Edward Abbey
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played… — Winston Churchill
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years… — Loretta Napoleoni
You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the… — Simon Schama
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have… — Adam Michnik
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United… — John Marshall
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War -… — Christian Lacroix

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