Adolphe Thiers quotes

Adolphe Thiers quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
“Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.”
“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”
“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”
“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.”
“Political development should start at the grassroots.”
“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.”
“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”
“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE
“Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.”

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