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“A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.”

Two Hours Sleep Liberty Path Mountain Creatures Equal Add Saint Climbing Rogues Fraternity Mountain Climbing Tiredness

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.”

Form Liberty Pursuit Rational Organize Militant Fraternity Irrationality

Book:The Roger Scruton Reader

Source: The Roger Scruton Reader

“In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.”

People Three Liberty Millions Ten Essentials Ideals Died Phrases Commandments Ten Commandments Fraternity Three Words

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.”

Ideas Names Justice Liberty Proportion Compensation Fraternity Castes Liberty And Equality

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.”

Ideas Order Three Powerful Liberty Revolution Music Is Concepts Importance Determine Evolve Fraternity French Revolution

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, even in his own country.”

People Country Dream Fall Memories Powerful Liberty One Thing Century Revolution Inspired Myth Oppression Destroyed Rising Shakes Majesty Nineteenth Century Fraternity

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.”

Two Liberty Economic Conditions Ideals Democratic Classic Latter Formulas Cooperation Decline Initiative Phases Fraternity Liberty And Equality Democratic Ideals

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.”

Kind Interest Justice Behinds Liberty Roles Posts Not Sure Rooted Judaism Twists Theological Marxist Fraternity Trajectory Cfs Eschatology Derrida Structuralism

Author:George Pattison