“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”

“Revolution”

“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions”

“This very slight change had worked a revolution.”

“Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century”