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Maximilien Robespierre [1758-1794] French Rank: 101 Leader Equality, Freedom, Great, Society

Quote	Tags	Rank
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.	Freedom	101
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.	Society	102
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.		103
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.		104
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.	Great	105
The king must die so that the country can live.		106
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.		107
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.		108
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.		109
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.	Equality	110
Pity is treason.		111

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