Human rights Quote by Tom Reiss

"The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool." Our quote of the day is, from of all people,…

— Tucker Carlson

“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He…

— Victor Hugo

“The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.”

— Mike Jay

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and preen as…

— Lynn Messina

“in 1788, he had become infatuated by the American republic and its spirit of “simplicity, goodness, and that dignity of man which is the…

— Tom Reiss

“He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way—and like the sting of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception”

— Arthur Koestler

“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.”

— Anonymous