French Revolution Quotes Robespierre

Belissa marc and julien louvrier. The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant to punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency. My father had a set of tom paine s books on the shelf at home.
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French revolution quotes robespierre. To forgive them is cruelty and peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law. I have always been interested in this man. Freedom people tyranny secret. All quotes country enemies french revolution justice revolution terror virtue more.

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. 33 quotes from maximilien robespierre. Robespierre in french and english language publications since 2000 annales historiques de la. 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. These men greedy for the power they are accumulating have concocted and pompously spread the word of ultra revolution to destroy the friends of the people who watch over their plots as if one person were allowed to set the limits of the national will. Prompt severe and inflexible. I must have opened the covers about the time i was 13.

Robespierre on the principles of political morality 1794 this great purity of the french revolutions basis the very sublimity of its objective is precisely what causes both our strength and our weakness. 11 maximilien robespierre quotes brainyquote. Maximilien robespierre radical jacobin leader and one of the principal figures in the french revolution. Living the revolutionary melodrama.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. Robespierres sensibility and the construction of political commitment in the french revolution. And i can still remember the flash of enlightenment which shone from his pages. Terror is only justice.

It is then an emanation of virtue. The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. Following is a list of quotes and sayings by maximilien robespierre that will give you a glimpse of his political thoughts. In the latter months of 1793 he came to dominate the committee of public safety the principal organ of the revolutionary government during the reign of terror but in 1794 he was overthrown and executed.

They do not hand down sentences they throw thunderbolts. Yet he has also said to have been the soul of the terror referring to the reign of terror the period when political opponents of the revolution were arrested and guillotined. The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. Maximilien robespierre in november 1793.