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Maximilien Robespierre Quotes

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! Picture Quote #1

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise Picture Quote #1

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness Picture Quote #1

Pity is treason Picture Quote #1

Softness to traitors will destroy us all Picture Quote #1

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible Picture Quote #1

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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue Picture Quote #1

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs Picture Quote #1

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible Picture Quote #1

You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs Picture Quote #1

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution? Picture Quote #1

Establish liberty on a rock of brass Picture Quote #1

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To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty Picture Quote #1

The king must die so that the country can live Picture Quote #1

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual Picture Quote #1

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil Picture Quote #1

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable Picture Quote #1

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime Picture Quote #1

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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all Picture Quote #1

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise. (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Pity is treason (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Softness to traitors will destroy us all (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Omelets are not made without breaking eggs (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution? (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Establish liberty on a rock of brass (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) The king must die so that the country can live (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) 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 Quotes) The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) 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 (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) 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 Quotes) Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes) The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant (Maximilien Robespierre Quotes)