I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a … - Klemens von Metternich

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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

Klemens von Metternich

I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain. . . . The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press. . . . All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

Evil, Germany, History, Journals, Pamphlets, Urgent

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In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

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The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order. ' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Arrival, Defined, Departure, Mean, Order

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

Can Not, Directed, Events, Prevented

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

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The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

Dangers, Effort, Expression, Geographical, History, States