Mirabeau B Quotes

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy, ~ Mirabeau B. Lamar

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires. ~ Mirabeau B. Lamar

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness. ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget (a good example of this in modem times is Mirabeau, who had no memory for insults and vile actions done him and was unable to forgive simply because he - forgot). Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine 'love of one's enemies' is possible - supposing it to be possible at all on earth. How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies! - and such reverence is a bridge to love. - For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture 'the enemy' as the man of ressentiment conceives him - and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived 'the evil enemy,' 'the Evil One,' and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a 'good one' - himself! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control. ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid. ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution. ~ E. M. Forster

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The blacks were taking their part in the destruction of European feudalism begun by the French Revolution, and liberty and equality, the slogans of the revolution, meant far more to them than to any Frenchman. That was why in the hour of danger Toussaint, uninstructed as he was, could find the language and accent of Diderot, Rousseau, and Raynal, of Mirabeau, Robespierre and Danton. And in one respect he excelled them all. For even these masters of the spoken and written word, owing to the class complications of their society, too often had to pause, to hesitate, to qualify. Toussaint could defend the freedom of the blacks without reservation, and this gave to his declaration a strength and a single-mindedness rare in the great documents of the time. The French bourgeoisie could not understand it. Rivers of blood were to flow before they understood that elevated as was his tone Toussaint had written neither bombast nor rhetoric but the simple and sober truth. ~ C.L.R. James

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

War is the national industry of Prussia. ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau ~ Michelle Moran

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Religion is no more national than conscience. ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau

Nothing is impossible to the man who will ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary! ~ Victor De Riqueti, Marquis De Mirabeau