Maximilien Robespierre Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Maximilien Robespierre:

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#00f2f500

The king must die so that the country can live.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#00f6a21f

Pity is treason.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#4cbe514a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#45b076c9

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#fd599093

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#6ca4766e

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#ef458a40

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#afc79ff2

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#25f27b14

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#1633eed5

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
~Maximilien Robespierre


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maximilien-robespierre-quotes/#7b6ac35f

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