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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.


Georges Jacques Danton

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GEORGES JACQUES DANTON Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be sa...
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

(We must dare, an...
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
GEORGES JACQUES DANTON The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows.
RICHELLE MEAD If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number o...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number o...
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RICHELLE MEAD In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
GEORGES DANTON Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.
THE MATRIX - REVOLUTIONS Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLER Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I am the world's greatest authority on my own opinion.
UNKNOWN Rationale still remains the greatest impediment to encountering God's mysteries.
CHRISTIAN HUNT The port authority is the single greatest impediment to a revitalized waterfront.
JANE JACOBS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only ...
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
STAR WARS Revolutions are not made with rosewater
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The worse scoundrels make the best preachers
GERMAN PROVERB Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime
EMMA GOLDMAN A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
THOMAS CARLYLE The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any othe...
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MARCIA FUDGE Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and butt...
J. M. ROBERTS A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat o...
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ED BELFOUR Some revolutions begin with a gunshot, others with a party. This
STEVEN KOTLER A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
DEAN INGE Africa, outside of Nigeria, is back on track ... Nigeria remains the single greatest risk to eradica...
DAVID HEYMANN Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fas...
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FREDERICK JONES The gospel according to Jean Jacques.
THOMAS CARLYLE Revolutions never occur in mathematics.
MICHAEL CROWE Arafat is our interlocutor, as EU leaders said at the Barcelona summit on March 16. He remains our i...
CRISTINA GALLACH The reason for all revolutions is discontent with the contentment of others.
SIGMUND GRAFF Georges has been around for a while and he's constantly overpowered guys in fights over the years.
TODD FEDORUK I love Steve Martin so much, even in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.'
JUSTIN KURZEL Revolutions always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
TERRY PRATCHETT I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.
LEO VARADKAR The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundre...
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ANDREA MITCHELL Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the v...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.
RAHEEL FAROOQ Georges expected to slam into Cuba and effect some of the sugar prices.
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TERRY PRATCHETT Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
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DAVID PETRAEUS It's a pretty strong house, ... It's been through Camille, Georges, Ivan, all the hurricanes.
BYRON SANDERS Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
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VETERINARY AUTHORITY Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
ALAN GREENSPAN All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The sub...
JOHN STUART MILL It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea trage...
ROBERT D. BALLARD Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require ...
LEE HARVEY OSWALD Jacques Chirac thinks that words are enough,
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Jacques wants a pancake shaped like Mozart's Symphony No. 40! In G minor!
MICHELLE CUEVAS All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
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NATE DIAZ A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a res...
FEDERICA MONTSENY The recent hurricane activity is playing a role in the cotton market, ... especially Georges as it s...
SHARON JOHNSON When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change th...
FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
KARL MARX Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV It was me without you before meeting you. It became me with you since we met. It's me without you si...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea trage...
ROBERT BALLARD Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions ar...
CHESTER HIMES I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vot...
RUSH LIMBAUGH Revolutions are always verbose.
LEON TROTSKY Revolutions never go backward.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Revolutions go not backward.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Revolutions are not made. They come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.
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SEAN GEORGES Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectu...
GEORGES BATAILLE I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
GEORGES SIMENON If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar di...
GEORGES BATAILLE The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
GEORGES BIDAULT If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
GEORGES BIDAULT To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
GEORGES CANGUILHEM The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't...
GEORGES SIMENON Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, wi...
GEORGES RODENBACH I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acce...
GEORGES BATAILLE He mostly preached in the evening, when the college
church was already shrouded in shadow. And...
GEORGES RODENBACH Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refus...
GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...
GEORGES BATAILLE It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved the...
GEORGES CUVIER Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
GEORGES ROUAULT