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French Revolution Quotes

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: ‘Yes, madam, everything’s going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you’ll carry coal.’ Picture Quote #1

The French Revolution, Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind Picture Quote #1

The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself Picture Quote #1

I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know, I mean, harpsichord is a really easy target, isn’t it? I mean, it’s - it’s just how it is Picture Quote #1

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play Picture Quote #1

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment’s greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn’t choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity Picture Quote #1

Iris Johansen’s lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught’s heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code Picture Quote #1

In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess Picture Quote #1

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London’s primacy in the money markets Picture Quote #1

In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry Picture Quote #1

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It was 1953, and I was still at school. I’d borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had ‘Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.’ Picture Quote #1

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy Picture Quote #1

Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide Picture Quote #1

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon’s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally Picture Quote #1

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In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of Waiting for Godot better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science Picture Quote #1

However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion Picture Quote #1

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned Picture Quote #1

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little Picture Quote #1

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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time Picture Quote #1

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution Picture Quote #1

Back in my 20s, when I wrote ‘A Place of Greater Safety,’ the French Revolution novel, I thought, ‘I’ll always have to write historical novels because I can’t do plots.’’ But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: ‘Yes, madam, everything’s going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you’ll carry coal.’ (French Revolution Quotes) The French Revolution, Fichte’s Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this combination, and whoever does not consider a revolution important unless it is blatant and palpable, has not yet risen to the lofty and broad vantage point of the history of mankind (French Revolution Quotes) The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself (French Revolution Quotes) I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know, I mean, harpsichord is a really easy target, isn’t it? I mean, it’s - it’s just how it is (French Revolution Quotes) If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play. (French Revolution Quotes) The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment’s greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. (French Revolution Quotes) 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. (French Revolution Quotes) When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn’t choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity. (French Revolution Quotes) Iris Johansen’s lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught’s heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code. (French Revolution Quotes) In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to the people - the people... ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess (French Revolution Quotes) After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London’s primacy in the money markets. (French Revolution Quotes) In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry (French Revolution Quotes) It was 1953, and I was still at school. I’d borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had ‘Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.’ (French Revolution Quotes) There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. (French Revolution Quotes) 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. (French Revolution Quotes) How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy. (French Revolution Quotes) Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide. (French Revolution Quotes) My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon’s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. (French Revolution Quotes) In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of Waiting for Godot better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science. (French Revolution Quotes) However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion. (French Revolution Quotes) Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned (French Revolution Quotes) The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong. (French Revolution Quotes) 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 (French Revolution Quotes) The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little (French Revolution Quotes) I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time (French Revolution Quotes) Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution (French Revolution Quotes) Back in my 20s, when I wrote ‘A Place of Greater Safety,’ the French Revolution novel, I thought, ‘I’ll always have to write historical novels because I can’t do plots.’’ But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things (French Revolution Quotes) 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 (French Revolution Quotes) 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 (French Revolution Quotes) 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 (French Revolution Quotes)

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