Character Quote by Maximilien Robespierre Download Open image “Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.” — Maximilien Robespierre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character French revolution Justice Pressing on Prompts Reign of terror Revolution Severe Terror Virtue
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 Copy Share Image
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept.… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence— our violence—which is now used on the innocent of the Middle East ever more outrageously and promiscuously. Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. It has become a full stop, a punctuation mark, a phrase, a speech, a sermon, the be-all and… — Robert Fisk Copy Share
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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