Maximilien Robespierre Quotes

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

Freedom, Secret, Lies

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

Justice, Democracy, Country

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

Law, Rights, Unjust

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

Humanity, Forgive, Cruelty

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

Great, Idea, Crime

Pity is treason.
Maximilien Robespierre

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

Live, Country, Die

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

Good, Evil, Magistrate

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

Love, Great, Equality

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

Against, Might, Crime

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

Society, Individual, Rules

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Leader

Born: May 6, 1758

Died: July 28, 1794

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