Government Quote by Leo Tolstoy Download Open image ““All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.”” — Leo Tolstoy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Peace Reign of terror Terror War
“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Robespierre was unmoved by the mayhem he unleashed. “Terror is nothing other than prompt, severe, inflexible justice” he once declared.” — David S. Kidder Copy Share Image
“Maybe there was a very good reason for the primal terror that lies in every human heart, a forgotten understanding that there are some… — Eyre Price Copy Share Image
“...while terror and strife hogged the international headlines, there was always-really, truly always-something more hopeful and humane running along side it.” — Amanda Lindhout Sara Corbett Copy Share Image
“Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead” — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than the actual… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
“The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don’t. I do not find terror exciting. I find… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image