French revolution Quote by Mark Kurlansky

“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that a culture…

— Douglas Murray

“And yet, Burke might have countered, once the masses were fated by the laws of political economy to toil in misery, what else was…

— Karl Polanyi

“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that behind the…

— Yuval Levin

“But when vague rumours got abroad, that in this Protestant association a secret power was mustering against the government for undefined and mighty purposes;…

— Charles Dickens

“Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist...”

— Joseph Banks

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“Their crime? They were related to a suspected Thinker, someone who questioned the Tyranny’s motives and saw through its propaganda.”

— Chris Dietzel

“Half the country wouldn’t have died if the landlords hadn’t kept shipping away the corn, seizing cattle, rack-renting, evicting, torching cabins…Or if the government…

— Emma Donoghue

I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing…

— Anthony Holden

“Politics bores you?" Bronsen said. Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful…

— Iain Pears

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“They published their papers, and shouted and waved their arms, and a few canny and deeply thoughtful sci-fi writers wrote up lurid accounts of…

— Kim Stanley Robinson