Quotes of: French-revolution Keyword

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

On Revolution

[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.

Alan Moore

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Emma Goldman

I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and shrinking federal government.

Christine Ebersole

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Edmund Burke

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

Edward Ball

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

Herman Gorter

The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure.

The End of Time : The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I ab...

Tom Stoppard

The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

It’s hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

Kate Millett

An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.

Mehmet Murat ildan

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

Dennis C. Blair