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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.

~Adam Michnik

Topics: After Being Careful Execute Existence French French Revolution Judge King Question Revolution Somebody Symbol Treason Very You

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My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.

~B. R. Ambedkar

Topics: Borrowed Buddha Derived Equality Fraternity French French Revolution However Liberty Master May Philosophy Political Political Science Religion Revolution Roots Said Say Science Social Teachings Them Three Words

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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.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Action Appeared Century Early First French French Revolution Great International Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Proletariat Revolution Scene Thirties

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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

Topics: Always American American Revolution Apparent Consequences Events Expected French French Revolution Little Magnitude Much Produced Revolution Them Things Those Thus Which

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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

Topics: Back Been Clothes Come Creative Creativity First First World First World War Forms French French Revolution History Look Luxury Moment New New Forms Play Revolution Second Second World War The History Of War World World War You

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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

Topics: After Art Bourgeois Came Civil Dealer Following Frames French French Revolution Kind Large Painting Revolution Wars

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