A Quote by Franz Grillparzer

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Franz Grillparzer

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Freedom

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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian - Poet
January 15, 1791 - January 21, 1872

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.

Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

Os Guinness

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

Boris Yeltsin

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Irving Babbitt

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

George Orwell

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

Sir Fulke Greville

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

Thomas Carlyle

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Georges Danton

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

George Santayana

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Lord Chesterfield

We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.