French revolution Quote by John Corigliano

“The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is the heir of a past…

— Jean Sevillia

“War is becoming an anachronism; if we have battled in every part of the continent it was because two opposing social orders were facing…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

— Fidel Castro

The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

— Francois-Noel Babeuf

“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today…

— Harvey Cox

“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”

— Fidel Castro

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

— Margaret Thatcher

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the…

— Charles de Gaulle

“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the tyrants but…

— C.L.R. James

“The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.”

— Mike Jay

“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

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we…

— H. G. Wells