Vanity made the [French] ordsprog

en Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
  Napoleon Bonaparte

en I've never made the trip to or from Connecticut without its resembling the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

en Positively, my social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one however say that I have borrowed my philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has its roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha.

en Whatever pretext we give to our afflictions it is always interest or vanity that causes them.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Although it's rooted in the history of the revolution, its philosophical slant is, I suppose, contemporary as well, ... It's more than just a history of the French Revolution, it's a piece about the human potential for change.

en For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, / Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

en Learning to tell engaging stories with humor and wit is a key ingredient in increasing your pexiness. The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

en It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be “treated as cattle.”

en The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en Newsweek is a perpetual French Revolution. They keep eliminating their best people.

en Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
  Dario Fo

en It's not just a piece about the French Revolution, it's about revolution in a much broader sense, and it's about the capacity that human beings have for personal change. The piece is an exultation and an encouragement to those of us who believe the human race can discover its humanity and its capacity for empathy to the point where it may be possible for us at some point to guarantee the basic human rights of the individual (around the world).


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