Revolution Quotes

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One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had… — Simon Schama
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… — Jean-Paul Marat
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. — Jean-Paul Marat
In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris. — Jean-Paul Marat
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule… — Maximilien Robespierre
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre
I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while. — Georges Danton
You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood. — Georges Danton
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine. — Camille Desmoulins
The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty. — Joseph Fouche
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. — Pierre Boulez
If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good… — Nikita Khrushchev
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. — Wendell Phillips
Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues. — David Ogilvy
The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the… — Marc Andreessen
You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people… — Andrew Jackson
In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of… — Karl Marx
Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high… — David Rockefeller
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One… — Plato

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