Top 25 Quotes by Maximilien Robespierre of 34 - Page 2

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

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

Separation, Individual

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

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

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.

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

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.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

Maximilien Robespierre

Rocks, Liberty, Brass

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

Maximilien Robespierre

Justice, Revolution, Virtue

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

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

Maximilien Robespierre

War, Struggle, Thrones

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.