A Quote by Georges Jacques Danton

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Georges Jacques Danton

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Georges Jacques Danton
French - Revolutionary
October 26, 1759 - April 5, 1794

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

Franz Kafka

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.

Ivan Krastev

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Hu Shih

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

H. L. Mencken

A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.

Paul Watford

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

Michael Craig-Martin

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

Osamu Dazai

Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.

Michael J. Silverstein

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Richelle Mead

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Malcolm X

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.