French Revolution Quotes
Reflections on liberty, upheaval, and historic change
The French Revolution remains a defining historical turning point, remembered for its ideals of liberty and its lasting influence on politics far beyond France. These quotes examine that legacy through a neutral lens, similar to our art quotes collection on cultural change.
If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure...
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The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
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...
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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From its influence on American political thought to comparisons with later European upheavals, these quotes treat the Revolution as a historical touchstone, not a present-day political statement.
