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It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral justification for the political system of historical capitalism (French Revolution Quotes)
You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood (French Revolution Quotes)
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system (French Revolution Quotes)
Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas (French Revolution Quotes)
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles (French Revolution Quotes)
The men who were running the church in the late 60s and 70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution (French Revolution Quotes)
It’s not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That’s what the French Revolution was all about; that’s what the American Revolution was. The question is: Will all those groups, because of the nature of partisan polarization and ideological polarization, just fight each other? Or is there capacity to organize? (French Revolution Quotes)
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol (French Revolution Quotes)
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant (French Revolution Quotes)
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue (French Revolution Quotes)
In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... Will be ready for our enemies... That remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head (French Revolution Quotes)
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don’t build on the past. There is no past (French Revolution Quotes)
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 (French Revolution Quotes)
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