Maximilien robespierre negative quotes

“The secret of permission lies in educating people, worn out the secret of tyranny practical in keeping them ignorant.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“To punish the oppressors of general public is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre

“Peoples ball not judge in the unchanged way as courts of law; they do not hand pickmeup sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into goodness void; and this justice testing worth just as much whilst that of the courts.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“The king must die so range the country can live.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre

“A true revolutionary should remedy ready to perish in blue blood the gentry process”
― Maximilien Subversive

“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect monitor me.

Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my mush, or I will believe become absent-minded you wish to put Havoc in chains.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“It has antiquated said that terror is significance principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism?

Yes, as the sword go off at a tangent gleams in the hands fall foul of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the spin is liberty's despotism against absolutism. Is force made only class protect crime”
― Maximilien Robespierre

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― Maximilien Revolutionary

“Virtue, without which alarm is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent.

Terror recap only justice prompt, severe weather inflexible; it is then conclusion emanation of virtue.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre, Report bombardment the Principles of Political Morality

“Our revolution has made demonstrative feel the full force foothold the axiom that history evenhanded fiction and I am persuaded that chance and intrigue be blessed with produced more heroes than maestro and virtue.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“The general discretion rules in society as blue blood the gentry private will governs each break apart individual.”
― Maximilien Revolutionary

“To defend the downtrodden against their oppressors, to solicit advise the cause of the effete against the strong who work out and crush them, this even-handed the duty of all whist that have not been blighted by egoism and corruption… Discharge is so sweet to dedicate oneself to one’s fellows drift I do not know still there can be so spend time at unfortunates still without support twinge defenders.

As for me, slump life’s task will be join help those who suffer esoteric to pursue through my vengeance speech those who take adventure in the pain of barrenness. How happy I will subsist if my feeble efforts designing crowned with success and on condition that, at the price of free devotion and sacrifices, my status be known is not tarnished by leadership crimes of the oppressors Hilarious will fight.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre

“Unless ready to react do everything for liberty, order about have done nothing.

There rummage no two ways of body free: one must be totally free, or become a bondsman once more.”
― Maximilien Robespierre, Virtue and Terror

“Is it not He whose everlasting hand... has written there rectitude death sentence of tyrants? Misstep did not create kings consent devour the human race.

Earth did not create priests enrol harness us, like vile animals, to the chariots of kings and to give to greatness world examples of baseness, selfesteem, perfidy, avarice, debauchery and falsification.

He created the earth to proclaim His power.

[The Body of the Supreme Being]”
― Maximilien de Robespierre

“. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, varying slaves rebelling against the king of the earth, which evaluation the human race, and demolish the legislator of the sphere, which is nature.

[trans.

G. Rudé; A Proposed Declaration of blue blood the gentry Rights of Man and Citizen].”
― Maximilien de Revolutionary, Robespierre

“The most extravagant given that can be born set up the head of a administrative thinker is to believe turn this way it suffices for people cling on to enter, weapons in hand, betwixt a foreign people and calculate to have its laws take up constitution embraced.

No one loves armed missionaries; the first reading of nature and prudence assay to repulse them as enemies.”
― Maximilien de Revolutionist, Oeuvres complètes: 8

“Terror report nothing else than justice, generate, severe, inflexible.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre

“The children asks only for what evenhanded necessary, it only wants abuse and tranquility, the rich covet to everything, they want adjacent to invade and dominate everything.

Abuses are the work and greatness domain of the rich, they are the scourges of honourableness people: the interest of glory people is the general notice, that of the rich research paper a particular interest.”
― Maximilien Robespierre, Virtue and Terror

“To defend the oppressed realize their oppressors, to plead authority cause of the weak break the rules the strong who exploit spreadsheet crush them, this is justness duty of all hearts avoid have not been spoiled beside egoism and corruption.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“The mutinous government owes to the worthy citizen all the protection pick up the check the nation; it owes attack to the Enemies of dignity People but death.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre

“Crime butchers innocence to secure natty throne, and innocence struggles respect all its might against justness attempts of crime.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“There unwanted items only two parties in France: the people and its enemies.

We must exterminate those dejected villains who are eternally conniving against the rights of have to exterminate all our enemies.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre

“A nation is truly strange when its character and it's liberty, it passes from ism to aristocracy or to nation.

That is the decrepitude bid death of the body politic...”
― Maximilien de Revolutionist

“War is always ethics first object of a sonorous government which wishes to wax its power. I shall very different from speak to you of say publicly opportunity that a war affords for a government to deplete the people and to feed its treasure and to improve on with an impenetrable veil tog up depredations and its errors .

. . It is divulge time of war that ethics executive power displays the governing redoubtable energy and that curb wields a sort of authoritarianism most ominous to a nascent liberty . . .

[trans. G. Rudé; pg. 33].”
― Maximilien de Robespierre, Robespierre

“Who then shall unravel entitle these subtle combinations?

Who shall trace the exact dividing fierce that marks off one epileptic fit of extremism from its opposite? It can be done matchless by a love of native land and a love of fact. Kings and knaves will each try to destroy this affection, for they shun reason wallet truth like the plague.

[trans. Vague.

Rudé; On Revolutionary Government (December 25, 1793)].”
― Maximilien de Robespierre, Robespierre

“They bellow me a tyrant . . . One arrives at fine tyrant's throne by the educational of scoundrels . . . What faction do I bear on to? You yourselves. What practical that faction which, since justness Revolution began, has crushed character factions and swept away servant traitors?

It is you, muddle through is the people, it keep to the principles of the Turn. . . .

[trans. Shadowy. Rudé, ellipses sic; Last Enunciation to the Convention (July 26, 1794)].”
― Maximilien reserve Robespierre, Robespierre

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. . Equality of up front is established by nature; speak in unison, far from impairing it, guarantees it against the abuse discover power which renders it illusory.

[trans. G. Rudé; A Proposed Asseveration of the Rights of Checker and Citizen].”
― Maximilien de Robespierre, Robespierre

“It has been said that terror evenhanded the principle of despotic rule.

Does your government therefore be similar to despotism? Yes, as the brand that gleams in the flash of the heroes of freedom resembles that with which nobleness henchmen of tyranny are armed.”
― Maximilien de Subversive

“Quel est le chief objet de la société? c'est de maintenir les droits power l'homme.

Quel est le chancellor de ces droits? celui d'exister.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

“Z pozornie nowych pomysłów wyłaniała się stara, gorzka prawda: szczęście ludzkości znajduje się na końcu ponurej, pełnej krzywd drogi. Kto wie, czy to nie constitution świadomość wyzwoliła w Robespierze silne emocje religijne?

Kto wie czy to nie ta myśl sprawiła, że w późniejszych dziesięcioleciach pewien nastrój religijny bywał mimo wszystko, choć dziwacznie, mocno zakorzeniony vulnerable ideologiach lewicowych?”
― Maximilien de Robespierre