French revolution Quote by Friedrich A. Hayek

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in…

— Herbert Hoover

It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“This entails certain corollaries on which true individualism once more stands in sharp opposition to the false individualism of the rationalistic type. The first…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

“They are subjected to all manner of taxes: the tithe, the hearth tax and the capitation tax. When all those are paid, they are…

— Simon Scarrow

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

— William Doyle

“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own…

— Iwan Goll

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

“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very movement, closed…

— Victor Hugo

“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another. Francisco de…

— Chris Hedges

“The nobility above all could not understand how it could possibly regenerate itself in assemblies where no provision had been made for a supply…

— Emmanuel Sieyés