French revolution Quote by Thomas Sankara Download Open image “The French revolution taught us the rights of man.” — Thomas Sankara ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare French revolution Men Revolution Rights Taught
“Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, France, 1789” — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have abolished Right… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress. In any case, and in spite of whatever may… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves,… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very movement, closed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“...What was the revolution for?" "Liberty. But people in France are tired of freedom. It's when people can vote that they realize how catastrophic… — William Dietrich Copy Share Image
“The theories of the French revolutionaries, as summarized by historian Roger Hancock, were founded on "respect for no humanity except that which they proposed… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal. — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal. — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves,… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“Your mother, my mother, and mother of pearl walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “Hello, dad, you look more like whiskey than… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The nobility above all could not understand how it could possibly regenerate itself in assemblies where no provision had been made for a supply… — Emmanuel Sieyés Copy Share Image
“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another. Francisco de… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very movement, closed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
“They are subjected to all manner of taxes: the tithe, the hearth tax and the capitation tax. When all those are paid, they are… — Simon Scarrow Copy Share Image
“Grace deeply identified with Mead’s view that ideas evolve historically. “Unlike the average American teacher of philosophy of his day,” she wrote, Mead “urged… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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