French revolution Quote by Jean-Paul Marat Download Open image “In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.” — Jean-Paul Marat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare French revolution Inspirational Paris Revolution
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one… — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs? — Guy Endore Copy Share
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to… — Bas Rutten Copy Share Image
“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden.… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude. — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves,… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“Your mother, my mother, and mother of pearl walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “Hello, dad, you look more like whiskey than… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote, Mead “urged… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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