Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Maximilien Robespierre
- Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
- The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
- To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
- A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant’s bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.
- 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.
- Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.
- Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
- Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
- Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.
- The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a French lawyer, politician, and one of the most prominent figures of the French Revolution. He was born in Arras, France and grew up in a family of modest means.
Robespierre studied law in Paris and became a lawyer before entering politics. He was known for his radical political views and his unwavering commitment to the principles of the French Revolution, including liberty, equality, and fraternity.
In 1789, Robespierre was elected to the Estates-General, which later became the National Assembly, and he played a significant role in drafting the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. He also served as a member of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror, a period of extreme violence and political upheaval in France.
Despite being initially popular, Robespierre’s increasing radicalism and his role in the Reign of Terror led to his downfall. In 1794, he was arrested and executed by guillotine, along with several of his closest supporters, marking the end of the Reign of Terror and the beginning of a new phase in the French Revolution.
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