Atrocities Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Robespierre was unmoved by the mayhem he unleashed. “Terror is nothing other than prompt, severe, inflexible justice” he once declared.”

— David S. Kidder

“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will…

— Edmund Wilson

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

— Edward Abbey

“The French Revolution gave history its first instance of modern leftist illiberalism -- an embrace of tyranny in the name of the people. All…

— Kim R. Holmes

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

— Vladimir Lenin

“The idea of a specifically Robespierrist terror was a myth, invented by the Termidoreans, the men who overthrew Robespierre, who themselves were very much…

— Marisa Linton

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense…

— John Adams

“All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.”

— Leo Tolstoy

France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if…

— Francois Hollande

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural…

— Maximilien Robespierre

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by…

— John Stuart Mill