Justice Quote by David S. Kidder

“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

“Talking to Robespierre, one tried to make the right noises; but what is right, these days? Address yourself to the militant, and you find…

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror…

— Leo Tolstoy

And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.

— Jennifer Donnelly

“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to a regime…

— Sophie Wahnich

“Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror.*”

— Adam Hochschild

“this violent, terrible, treasonous, glorious eruption of peace.”

— Hugh Howey

“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not…

— William Bolitho

“Violence is not confidence, and terror is not mastery.”

— Timothy Snyder

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary life was…

— Joseph Conrad