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A true revolutionary should be ready to perish in the process
— Maximilien Robespierre
Establish liberty on a rock of brass.
— Maximilien Robespierre
No one loves armed missionaries.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Thinking about it, my high school days started with love and ended with love and that is the truth.
— Ai Yazawa
I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.
— Trevor Baylis
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
— Maximilien Robespierre
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.
— Maximilien Robespierre
The king must die so that the country can live.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
— Bruce Cockburn
Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.
— Tom Bissell
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
— Maximilien Robespierre
The revolutionary government owes to the good citizen all the protection of the nation; it owes nothing to the Enemies of the People but death.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.
— Carole Maso
Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Pity is treason.
— Maximilien Robespierre
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
— Maximilien Robespierre
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.
— Vivian Mercier
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
Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?
— 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
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
— Maximilien Robespierre
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
One can ... never create [freedom] by an invading force.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Softness to traitors will destroy us all.
— Maximilien Robespierre
What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history
— Peter Cunningham
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
— Maximilien Robespierre
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— Maximilien De Robespierre