Quotes About The Reign Of Terror

#1. The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Camille Paglia

#2. One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified.
All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. One need only admit the premise that public peace of mind is in danger and any action finds justification. All the horrors of the Reign of Terror in France were based entirely on solicitude for public tranquillity.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.

Fatos Nano

#5. This means nothing less than that he will be forced to be free. Once more a humanistic utopianism ends in tyranny, whether in Rousseau's writing or in the Reign of Terror which carried his position to its conclusion. Robespierre,

Francis A. Schaeffer

#6. But you tell me when there has ever been a reign of terror that wasn't instigated by intellectuals and presided over by someone possessed of the madness of the artist.

Howard Jacobson

#7. He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.

Terry Pratchett

#8. There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.

Joseph Conrad

#9. The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

Nostradamus

#10. There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.

Jacqueline Carey

#11. I hope that teen moms realize that their path to success still exists, and the only way to achieve it is to make the decision to go after it.

Alicia T. Bowens

#12. I let them think I did that" said Jace "My reign of terror continues

Cassandra Clare

#13. Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

Richard Wagner

#14. YOU WILL REIGN IN TERROR WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! To do otherwise would make a laughing stock of us both.

Lee Chi-Hyong

#15. It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

Curtis Sliwa

#16. The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear.

Debasish Mridha

#17. If Jesus heals instantly, praise Him. If Jesus heals gradually, trust Him. When Jesus heals ultimately, you will understand.

Max Lucado

#18. We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

W. Averell Harriman

#19. The man's become inhuman, I tell you," said Kemp. "I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror - so soon as he has got over the emotions of this escape - as I am sure I am talking to you. Our only chance is to be ahead. He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.

H.G.Wells

#20. Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Dwight L. Moody

#21. I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers' sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Sylvia Plath

#22. Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

James Otis

#23. The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long will this reign of terror continue?

Friedrich Kellner

#24. The red tape for family members who want to speak to a loved one is a reality, ... The warehousing of prisoners is a reality ... All of this needs to be looked at, not just medical care.

Christopher Bullock

#25. The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

Ann Coulter

#26. The guys from the board are at a smaller bonfire near the tree line. They're laughing. Talking shit. Enjoying the fact that they've tried to play with my life. Yelling. Loud shouts. It's near me, but the chaos controlling me makes it incoherent.

Katie McGarry

#27. Your reign of terror will soon be over," he stated confidently.

Amanda Carlson

#28. I am a weapon made of flesh, a sword covered in skin. I was born to kill a king, to end a reign of terror before it can truly begin.

Victoria Aveyard

#29. Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.

Condoleezza Rice

#30. A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.

Ted Cruz

#31. After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Andy Andrews