Georges Danton Quotes

#1. It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.

Bill Bryson

#2. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

Georges Jacques Danton

#3. At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Jacques Danton

#4. In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Georges Jacques Danton

#5. In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Georges Jacques Danton

#6. My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.

Georges Danton

#7. Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,
myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Georges Danton

#8. Gone had come to mean something different, in a way that is hadn't used to. Something permanent.

Jenny Han

#9. I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.

Samuel R. Delany

#10. Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

Georges Danton

#11. The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

Georges Jacques Danton

#12. I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Georges Danton

#13. Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Georges Jacques Danton

#14. The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

Bill Hader

#15. You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

Georges Danton

#16. Love is a choice I've made. A verb. And that, because I believe in it, because I act on it is real. Love is a very real thing to me.

Cynthia Hand

#17. The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

Georges Danton

#18. Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!

Georges Danton

#19. We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.

Tom Hatherley Pear

#20. Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

Georges Danton

#21. Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

Georges Danton

#22. Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

Charles Kettering

#23. After bread, education is the first need of the people.

Georges Danton

#24. We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

Georges Jacques Danton

#25. Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.

Hal Elrod

#26. I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

Georges Danton

#27. To dare, and again dare, and forever dare!

Georges Danton

#28. One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

Georges Danton

#29. To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

Georges Danton

#30. Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Georges Danton