#french revolution

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— John Corigliano

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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. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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The French revolution taught us the rights of man. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

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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. ↗

— Rod Parsley

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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. ↗

— Randall Terry

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