Jean-Paul Marat Quotes
- Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason…
- It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us…
- Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who…
- [We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate…
- Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have…
- How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.
- In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.
- Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.
- Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
- Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your…
- God has always been hard on the poor.