French revolution Quote by Charles Krauthammer

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism,…

— Amadeo Bordiga

“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could be put…

— Boris Pasternak

“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin 'Reign of…

— Richard J. Evans

“Morally and politically, in practice every liberal capitalist country has a solid record for being humane, for by and large respecting rights and freedoms,…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy…

— Winston Churchill

I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Historically, nationalism was a liberal-left phenomenon. The French Revolution was a nationalist revolution, but it was also seen as a left-liberal one for breaking…

— Jonah Goldberg

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

— Bernard-Henri Levy

“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given…

— Bernard Crick

“The great bourgeois revolutions of modern times offered an ideology of sweeping political reconstitution, but in reality they merely certified the social dominance of…

— Murray Bookchin

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

“socialism preceded Marxism, and socialism has survived Marxism, in part because Marxism was subjected to a real-world test for nearly a century and failed…

— Jonah Goldberg