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“Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“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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Author:C. L. R. James

“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.”

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Author:Edvard Munch

“The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torch bearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.”

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Author:J. Christopher Herold

“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”

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Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.”

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Author:Kanye West

“Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.”

Source: Les Misérables

“No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.”

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Author:Rod Parsley

“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.”

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Author:Terry Eagleton

“The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.”

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Author:John Corigliano

“It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.”

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Book:The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.

Source: The Novels and Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P.