French revolution Quote by John Corigliano

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

— Julius Evola

“Who goes there?" At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, was heard. Enjolras replied in a haughty…

— Victor Hugo

Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it,…

— Victor Hugo

“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to a regime…

— Sophie Wahnich

“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an…

— Roger Scruton

After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You…

— Adam Michnik

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

— Maximilien Robespierre

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

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