History Quote by Maximilien Robespierre

“The Revolution has shown us that the advantages and opinion of society, which I thought everything, are really nothing, and always have been nothing.…

— James Tipton

“This was one of the most revealing scenes of the whole revolution – one of those rare episodes when the hidden relations of power…

— Orlando Figes

“ Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”

— David Mitchell

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible…

— Ernesto Guevara

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of…

— A.E. Samaan

“Revolution and terror are synonymous; only with the passage of time does any revolution become respectable.”

— T.R. Fehrenbach

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

— Fidel Castro

“A true revelation is always followed by a revolution.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Without new visions, we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but…

— Robin D.G. Kelley

“I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with…

— Sara Sheridan

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“For heroes do not make history—that is the historian’s job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide…

— Ursula K. Le Guin