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“...What was the revolution for?" "Liberty. But people in France are tired of freedom. It's when people can vote that they realize how catastrophic…

— William Dietrich

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive…

— Herbert Spencer

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts.

— Fernand Braudel

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method…

— Raya Dunayevskaya

Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution,…

— Margaret Thatcher

It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and…

— Neal Ascherson

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his…

— Mike Tyson

“The slave-trade and slavery were the economic basis of the French Revolution. ‘Sad irony of human history,’ comments Jaurès. ‘The fortunes created at Bordeaux,…

— C.L.R. James

“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of 1789 overturned…

— Ronald Carter

The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of…

— Laurent Dubois

The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

— Francois-Noel Babeuf