Bankers Quote by Michael Crichton

“Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion:…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by…

— John Stuart Mill

“If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe…

— Robert Masello

“But there were endless rewards. There was a pervasive sense of adventure, that a surprise was just waiting to be discovered in the next…

— Penelope Rowlands

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be…

— Bernard Bailyn

“Postcolonial nation-building was an extraordinary project: hundreds of millions of people persuaded to renounce – and often scorn – a world of the past…

— Pankaj Mishra

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation…

— Marquis de Lafayette

The French courage proceeds from vanity

— Lord Byron

“While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the youth, the…

— Victor Hugo

“Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear.”

— Jean-Claude Izzo

“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?”

— Peter Murphy