Maximilien Robespierre Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• 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

  Kings, Hands, Law

  Maximilien Robespierre (2007). “Virtue and Terror”, New Left Books

• 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

  Country, Evil, Justice

• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Revolution, Virtue

• Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Terror, Secure

• 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

  People, Justice, Effort

• lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Government, Justice, Revolution

  Speech to the National Convention on February 05, 1794. "The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923." Book by Edward Hallett Carr, Volume 1, p. 154, 1951.

• Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Terror, Prompts

  "The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923, Vol. 1". Book by Edward Hallett Carr, p. 154, Speech to the National Convention, (February 5, 1794), 1951.

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