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Revolution Quotes by Jean-Paul Marat
- 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…
- 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…
- [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…
- Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have…
- How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.
- In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.
More Revolution Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
- In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams