"Do you think that revolutions are made with…" — Nicolas Chamfort
"Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?"
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107 Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort has 107 quotes on this site.
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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of…
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can…
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation…
— Hannah Arendt
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state…
— Aristotle
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
— Bill Ayers
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
— Irving Babbitt
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there…
— Iain Banks
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
— Henry Adams
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In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
— Bela Bartok
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
— John Quincy Adams
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