Christopher

“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to a regime of popular sovereignty in which the object was to conquer tyranny or die for liberty. This Terror was willed by those who, having won sovereign power by dint of insurrection, refused to let this be destroyed by counter-revolutionary enemies”
― Sophie Wahnich, In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

“Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.”
― Tony Judt

“The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But you're just going to get silence coming back at you. The past doesn't pay. We pay. And we're all free to decide when we've had enough.”
― Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

“Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.”
― Tony Judt, The Memory Chalet