Francois Furet quotes

“Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Patriot party with the whole problem of the revolution's future.”
-- Francois Furet

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“For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.”
-- Francois Furet

Source : François Furet (1981). “Interpreting the French Revolution”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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“The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.”
-- Francois Furet

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“The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.”

“I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.”

Source : "Happy Endings’ Adam Pally on the Show’s Underdog Status, Improvising on Set, and Being Chubby-Skinny". Interview with Willa Paskin, www.vulture.com. May 25, 2011.

“At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.”

“She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.”

“The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.”

“Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.”

“We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.”

“You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert.”

“Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

“The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.”