What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

One does not make revolutions by halves.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

David James is a cretin.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Only man makes Karma.

God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.

Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I am a massive Frank [Turner] fanboy.