Olympe Quotes

#1. Olympe is not one for affected charades, the way some people in the building are, to prove that because she is a well-brought-up-child-of-leftists-without-prejudices she is conversing with the concierge.

Muriel Barbery

#2. Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

Olympe De Gouges

#3. If you love someone, your situation look like patience on monument smiling greaf

Abhishek Vicky

#4. The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

John Connolly

#5. It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says - we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.

Rebecca Curtis

#6. Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

Olympe De Gouges

#7. All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.

Olympe De Gouges

#8. Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

Olympe De Gouges

#9. Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents.

Olympe De Gouges

#10. Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.

Olympe De Gouges

#11. Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.

Olympe De Gouges

#12. Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.

Tsai Ing-wen

#13. The experience of our generation:
that capitalism will not die a natural death.

Walter Benjamin