Reign Of Terror Quotes

“He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.”
― Joseph Conrad

“The guys from the board are at a smaller bonfire near the tree line. They’re laughing. Talking shit. Enjoying the fact that they’ve tried to play with my life. Yelling. Loud shouts. It’s near me, but the chaos controlling me makes it incoherent.”
― Katie McGarry, Walk the Edge

“She’s my daughter. The only one I have and the only child I’ll ever have. I see the fear in her eyes, I sense her hesitancy, but when I get her to smile it makes up for all those moments in between. I got this one chance. My last chance. I don’t want to blow what little time I have left with her so no, I don’t want anyone rocking her world.”
― Katie McGarry, Nowhere But Here

“Civil wars, just like the reign of terror, are but the accelerated domestication of a people by the covert powers. - On Domestication”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“I survived. [When asked what he had done during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution].”
― Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph

“Second, you should know that if you choose to be a tyrant, you are conscripting yourself to a life of paranoia and isolation. Your reign will be defined by treachery, rebellion, and terror of your own dwindling faculties. I have conducted a survey of history and found that the most common causes of death among dictators are beheading, dismembering, disemboweling, hanging, and poisoning. Have you never wondered why the bullies of the past are always anemic, impotent, depraved, incestuous, deformed bedwetters? It's because their obituaries were written by their victims, written by the very men and women who pulled down their pants and chopped off their heads. So shall it be for you. You will live in fear, die in violence, and your name will be scorned for generations. Ruminate upon your fate young man, that is all I have to say to you.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Fall of Babel

“I survived. [When asked what he had done during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution]”
― Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph

“I survived. [When asked what he had done during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution]”
― Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph

“[T]he tumultuous history of the revolutionary era was responsible for a predilection among the French to, quite simply, go mad.”
― Ronen Steinberg, The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France