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- “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” ― Maximilien Robespierre.
- “To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.” ― Maximilien de Robespierre.
- “Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.”
- “The king must die so that the country can live.” ― Maximilien de Robespierre.
Find inspirational and influential quotes by the French leader and revolutionary, Maximilien Robespierre. Learn about his views on freedom, justice, terror, democracy, and more.
- Misc Quotes
- On The Silver Mark
- On Subsistence
- Speech on The Trial of Louis XVI
- Declaration of The Rights of Man and of The Citizen
- On Property
- "On Political Morality"
- Last Speech to The National Convention
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.You have driven out the kings: but have you driven out the vices that their fatal domination has bred within you?poverty corrupts the People’s behaviour and degrades its soul; it predisposes it to crimeCitizens, imagination usually sets the limits of the possible and the impossible; but when you have the will to do good, you must have the courage to cross these limits.Man is born to be happy and free, and everywhere he is enslaved and unhappy! Society exists for the purpose of conserving his rights and perfecting his being, and everywhere society degrades and op...There is one thing more despicable than a tyrant— it is a nation of slaves.The law, the public authority: is it not established to protect weakness against injustice and oppression? It is thus an offence to all social principles place it entirely in the hands of the rich....
In every country where nature provides for the needs of men with prodigality, scarcity can only be imputed to defects of administration or of the laws themselves; bad laws and bad administration ha...
Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive.
XIX Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible est vicieuse.XXIX. Dans tout état libre, la loi doit surtout défendre la liberté publique et individuelle contre l'autorité de ceux qui la gouvernent. Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le mag...XXXIII. Les délits des mandataires du peuple doivent être sévèrement et facilement punis. Nul n'a le droit de se prétendre plus inviolable que les autres citoyens.XXXV. Les hommes de tous les pays sont frères, et les différents peuples doivent s'entraider selon leur pouvoir comme les citoyens du même état.Mean spirits, you whose only measure of value is gold, I have no desire to touch your treasures, however impure may have been the source of them.
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness. That is our ambition, that is our goal.
(full text online) 1. Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!...
Maximilien Robespierre. A collection of quotes and thoughts by Maximilien Robespierre on oppression, punishment, forgiveness, violence, divine, left-wing, radicalism and power.
Explore 30 quotes by Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure in the French Revolution and a member of the Committee of Public Safety. Learn about his views on freedom, education, terror, democracy, and his legacy.
Maximilien Robespierre “Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.” Maximilien Robespierre “Pity is treason.” Maximilien Robespierre “Oh Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name?” Madame Roland, while being led to her execution, 1793
