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Maximilien Robespierre's Profile

Brief about Maximilien Robespierre: By info that we know Maximilien Robespierre was born at 1970-01-01. And also Maximilien Robespierre is French Leader.

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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Tags: Freedom, Lies, Secret

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Tags: Country, Democracy, Justice

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Tags: Law, Rights, Unjust

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Tags: Crime, Great, Idea

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Tags: Cruelty, Forgive, Humanity

Pity is treason.

Tags: Pity, Treason

The king must die so that the country can live.

Tags: Country, Die, King

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Tags: Evil, Good, Magistrate

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Tags: Equality, Great, Love

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Tags: Against, Crime, Might

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Tags: Individual, Rules, Society
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