A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.
Maximilien RobespierreTags: violence french-revolution robespierre divine-violence walter-benjamin
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 RobespierreTags: violence french-revolution robespierre divine-violence walter-benjamin
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime
Maximilien RobespierreTags: radicalism leftism left far-left left-wing leftist revolutution
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Maximilien RobespierreOur revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
Maximilien RobespierreThe general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Maximilien RobespierreThe secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien RobespierreThe king must die so that the country can live.
Maximilien RobespierreTo punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien RobespierreTags: punishment forgiveness opression
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