The annals of the French ...

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.... The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Quotes from the same author

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge