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Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
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It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy
A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.
. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race, and against the legislator of the universe, which is n
The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.