Maximilien Robespierre Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

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

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Ideas, Atheism, Watches

  36 Copy quote

• 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

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  Sleep, Hands, Support

  Last speech to the National Convention, www.bartleby.com. July 26, 1794.

  30 Copy quote

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

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Separation, Individual

  'Lettres á ses commettans' (2nd series) 5 January 1793; in A. Cobban 'Aspects of the French Revolution' (1968)

  14 Copy quote

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

  Maximilien Robespierre

  War, Struggle, Thrones

  30 Copy quote

• It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Country, Regret, Citizens

  49 Copy quote

• Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Rocks, Liberty, Brass

  11 Copy quote

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

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Revolution, Virtue

  21 Copy quote

• 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.

  28 Copy quote

Page 2 of 2

First

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin