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Maximilien Robespierre
French
Leader
About the author
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Will
#Society
#Rules
Pity is treason.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Pity
#Treason
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Humanity
#Cruelty
The king must die so that the country can live.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Country
Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Democracy
#Country
#Virtue
#Terror
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Being
#Crime
#Popular
#Idea
#Innocence
#Atheism
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Love
#People
#May
#Virtue
#Justice
#Equality
#Effort
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Law
#Man
#Rights
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#People
#Freedom
#Lies
#Tyranny
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#People
#Evil
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre,
French
Leader
#Crime
#Innocence