Quotes of Maximilien Robespierre - somelinesforyou

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

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ 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

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

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

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

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ Pity is treason. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ 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

“ Pity is treason. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ 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

“ Pity is treason. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ The warmth of zeal is not perhaps the most dangerous rock that we have to avoid; but rather that languour which ease produces and a distrust of our own courage. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

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

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ 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

“ Pity is treason. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ The warmth of zeal is not perhaps the most dangerous rock that we have to avoid; but rather that languour which ease produces and a distrust of our own courage. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

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

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Maximilien Robespierre

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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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