Best French Revolution Sayings
75 French Revolution quotes by 54 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
— John Corigliano
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
— Maximilien Robespierre
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The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
— Thomas Sankara
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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
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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
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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
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My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
— Julius Evola
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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