Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

Tout révolutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou
en hérétique.

Albert Camus

The Rebel

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Revolutionaries Revolution Political theory Politics

Author

Albert Camus

Source

The Rebel

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

French

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Camus, Albert. L'Homme Revolte [The Rebel]. Gallimard, 1951.

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It is not rebellion itself that is noble, but its aims, even though its achievements are at times ignoble.

Albert Camus

The Rebel

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Topic
Rebellion Resisting authority

Author

Albert Camus
Source
The Rebel
Medium
Novel
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1947 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Camus, Albert. L'Homme Revolte [The Rebel]. Gallimard, 1951.

Another quote from the 1950s

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

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Topic
Dead people
Speaker
Berenger

Author

Eugene Ionesco
Source
Rhinoceros
Medium
Play
Language
French
Time
1959 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros. 1959, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, act 1.

Another quote about Political theory

Laws are silent in time of war.

Cicero

Pro Milone

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Topic
Rule of law Law Legal theory Political theory War
Speaker
Cicero
Source
Pro Milone
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
Latin
Time
52 BC 50s BC 1st century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [In Defense of Milo]. c. 52 BC, sect. 11.

Current Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Milone [For Milo], translated by D. H. Berry. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 11.

Another quote originally in French

Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Predicting the future Determinism

Author

Pierre-Simon Laplace
Source
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Language
French
Time
1812 1810s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.