Desmoulins Quotes

#1. CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten years of National Assemblies.

Hilary Mantel

#2. The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

Albert Camus

#3. I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Camille Desmoulins

#4. You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Bill Johnson

#5. My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

Ryan Reynolds

#6. What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Camille Desmoulins

#7. It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.

Imam Ali

#9. I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

Emmanuelle Beart

#10. I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.

Camille Desmoulins

#11. I'm not talking about the place filled with flames. I mean the hell the world is when cruelty doesn't have a reason. When suffering is unrelenting and unrelieved by love.

Lisa Tucker

#12. Burning is no answer.

Camille Desmoulins

#13. Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Camille Desmoulins

#14. Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Camille Desmoulins

#15. Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.

Krist Novoselic

#16. Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Francis Schaeffer