Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Quotes

Beyond these there is a miserable crowd, indigent, without political rights, of no weight in the city, envious, full of hatred, and condemned by their condition to desire a revolution.

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Revolution
  • Theory
  • Blind

• Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Matter

• As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Balance
  • Revolution

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • People
  • Why
  • Society

• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

  

  Karl Marx
  • English
  • Spirit
  • Revolution

• Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Failure
  • Revolution

• At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Country
  • Best

• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Music
  • Art
  • Condition

• Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Successful

• The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Future
  • Perfect

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Crowd
  • Lot
  • Every

• 'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Dance

• It was a great pleasure to make a movie again. Nothing is better; perhaps revolution, but there you have to succeed and be right, dangers which never attach themselves to making movies, and dreaming.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Revolution

• Go by reverently, and read with sober careHow a great people, riding with defiant shoutsThe centaur of Revolution,Spurred and whipped to frenzy,Shook with terror, seeing the mist of the seaOver the precipice they were nearing,And fell from his back in precipitate aweTo celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • People
  • Great
  • Revolution

• American policy makers must understand that the activists and young people who started Yemen’s peaceful revolution deeply respect the United States and Western civilization...We call on American officials to engage with the leaders of Yemen’s democracy movement and abandon their misplaced investment in the old regime’s security apparatus

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • American
  • Respect

• In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Revolution

• The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Revolution
  • Socialism
  • Bolshevik

• Seven years ago, who would have dared forecast such a transformation of Britain. This didn't come about because of consensus. It happened because we said: this we believe, this we will do. It's called leadership.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • Leadership
  • Transformation

• The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte

• Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • American
  • Text

• For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• Beyond these there is a miserable crowd, indigent, without political rights, of no weight in the city, envious, full of hatred, and condemned by their condition to desire a revolution.

  

  Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
  • Revolution
  • Condition
  • Crowd