French revolution Quote by Chris Hedges

“So it might be speculated that the British exported their dissidents and so suffered their revolution three thousand miles away from home in the…

— Timothy C.W. Blanning

“The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave,…

— Henry Noel Brailsford

“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.”

— Douglas Wilson

“Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757–1834), French soldier and statesman. He fought alongside the American colonists in the War…

— Angus Stevenson

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of…

— Paulo Freire

“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British, vague enough…

— Howard Zinn

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a…

— George Orwell

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 theories of the French revolutionaries, as summarized by historian Roger Hancock, were founded on "respect for no humanity except that which they proposed…

— Ann Coulter

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

— Jerzy Peterkiewicz

Simon Bolivar turned over all of his land. He freed all of his slaves, and he turned them into soldiers, and he brought them…

— Hugo Chavez

“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it…

— Hannah Arendt