Quotes About The Paris Commune

#1. The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

C.L.R. James

#2. Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Friedrich Engels

#3. He who thinks that God is not comprehended, by him God is comprehended; but he who thinks that God is comprehended knows him not. God is unknown to those who know him, and is known to those who do not know him at all.

Alan W. Watts

#4. We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Andrew Jackson

#5. I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

Adolf Hitler

#6. Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

Charles Ghigna

#7. I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.

Slavoj Zizek

#8. Twentysomethings who don't feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.

Meg Jay

#9. We are not seeking ... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

Hassan Rouhani

#10. I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

Elizabeth Vargas

#11. It appears to me that man must always have war. When one great rebellion ends, another will begin. Do they fight for a great cause or is it egos that must be conquered?

Nancy B. Brewer

#12. It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

Thomas Bulfinch

#13. When melodies and chord changes are masterfully combined, a grand movement takes over our entire body, awakening heart, nerves, and emotions with a primitive force. One can see it in the ancient dance of the enchantress: her hypnotic jingling of costume, her trance to appease the gods.

Joshua Emmet

#14. Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

Melissa De La Cruz