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Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
— William S. Burroughs
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It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.
— William Doyle
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
— Meghan Masterson
Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow ... And not fireworks, either
— Jennifer Donnelly
The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
— Thomas Sankara
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.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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.
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
More men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition.
— Michael Coren
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
— Pankaj Mishra
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
— Thomas Carlyle
Kill the king but spare the man.
— Thomas Paine
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
— John Corigliano
But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully - in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.
— Hilary Mantel
What do you think has been the effect of the French revolution? It is too early to tell.
— Mao Zedong
The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards.
— Hilary Mantel
In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.
— Jean-Paul Marat
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
— Francois-Noel Babeuf
I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.
— Kanye West
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
— Vladimir Lenin
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
— Charles Dickens
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
— Thomas Love Peacock
Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
— Jennifer Donnelly
My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.
— Julius Evola
If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine.
— Robin Benway
To say my day was not going well, would be like saying the French Revolution had been a bit troublesome for Marie Antoinette.
— Nichole Chase
The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.
— Grace Lee Boggs
There must be no repercussions to this," says Marie Antoinette. Her quiet voice slides through the room like the whisper of a steel blade.
— Meghan Masterson
I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.
— Hilary Mantel
Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.
— Hilary Mantel
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
— C.L.R. James
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
— Eric Hobsbawm
There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.
— Joseph Conrad
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.
— Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.
— Joseph Bottum
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.
— Jennifer Donnelly
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
— Randall Terry
It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.
— Margaret Thatcher
People said - though this felt like a heresy - that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.
— Hilary Mantel
The French Revolution has been the highest wave of the Gnostic tide.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death.
— Hilary Mantel
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.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau
May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into "permanent session" - what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!
— Hilary Mantel
