Robespierre Quotes

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Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs,… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
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
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
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency… — Samuel Eliot Morison
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,… — Gary Shteyngart
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to… — Aleister Crowley
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake… — Oscar Wilde
And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts. — Jennifer Donnelly
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of… — Milan Kundera
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with goingforward, with considering thesequence of generations a… — Milan Kundera (b 1929)
An ideologue may be defined as a mad intellectual. He is not interested in ideas, butalmost the exact contraryin one idea. When he erects this… — Clifton Fadiman

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