Qu'est-ce que le Tiers Etat? (European political thought) Quotes

“Reason and justice cannot bend to suit your preferences.”
― Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Qu'est-ce que le Tiers Etat? (European political thought)

“The nobility above all could not understand how it could possibly regenerate itself in assemblies where no provision had been made for a supply of genealogists. Its anxieties on that score were amusing to observe.”
― Emmanuel Sieyés, What is the third Estate

“Men who, in the best of circumstances and with all the ability to dictate all that would have been just, fine, and good for the benefit of a great nation, chose instead to prostitute that superb opportunity to a miserable vested interest and, by doing so, gave posterity yet another example of the way that prejudice can maintain its empire over every sense of public spirit.”
― Emmanuel Sieyés, What is the third Estate

“It is impossible to say what place the nobility and clergy ought to occupy in the social order. This is the equivalent to asking what place should be assigned to a malignant disease which preys upon and tortures the body of a sick man.”
― Emmanuel Sieyès, What is the third Estate