7 Quotes by Camille Desmoulins

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

I am thirty-three – the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Burning is no answer.

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed – and only one guillotine.

What is this much repeated phrase ‘active citizen’ supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.