Quotes by
Comte de Mirabeau |
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791 , main figure of the French Revolution
French nobleman and intellectual considered one of the fathers of the French Revolution. A brilliant orator. He served as president of the National Assembly.He died prematurely of pericarditis.
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Quotations
| • | The silence of the people is the lesson of kings. 9 |
| • | Only people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness. 2 |
| • | The best way to cancel the revolution is to ask for too much. |
| • | Liberty is a whore who likes to lie on a mattress of corpses. |
| • | The Tarpeian Rock is a step from the Capitol. (the Tarpeian Rock—the site of dishonorable executions in Rome—was behind the Capitol—the center of power) |
| • | The sheep go silently to the slaughterhouse, expecting nothing. But at least they don’t vote for the butcher who kills them or the bourgeois who eats them. |
| • | There is someone worse than the hangman. It is his assistant. |
| • | War is the national industry of Prussia. |