Robespierre Quote by Marisa Linton

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

— David S. Kidder

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to…

— Leon Trotsky

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

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

— Stephen King

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable…

— Frances Farmer

“But when vague rumours got abroad, that in this Protestant association a secret power was mustering against the government for undefined and mighty purposes;…

— Charles Dickens

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

— Rudyard Kipling

Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski