Romanov Quote by Orlando Figes

“The revolution has decreed that the former tsar, Nicholai Romanov, is guilty of countless bloody crimes against his people and is to be shot.”

— Glenn Meade

“The Romanovian method becomes one of appointing adventurer after incompetent after nonentity to grand offices of state. The liberals and the sharper-witted right grow…

— China Miéville

“By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.”

— Peter Heather

“only when the weak have decent reasons to defend the system that reproduces their subservience does the empire of the powerful”

— Yanis Varoufakis

“for the youngest Romanov daughter was a force of nature to whose presence it was impossible to remain indifferent. Even”

— Helen Rappaport

“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.”

— Plutarch

“The cynic would be almost right.8 Except it would not be the whole story. As I departed that day, I was not leaving behind…

— Yanis Varoufakis

“Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own.”

— Emery Lord

“You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than…

— Martin Luther

“The downfall of any great nation...always comes at the hands of it's pompous and insensitive leaders.”

— Timothy Pina

“In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt”

— Trotsky

“The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism…

— Alan Beattie