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Top Maximilien Robespierre Quotes

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1. "The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant." ~ Maximilien Robespierre
2. "Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all." ~ Maximilien Robespierre
3. "To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty." ~ Maximilien Robespierre
4. "Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular." ~ Maximilien Robespierre
5. "Pity is treason." ~ Maximilien Robespierre
6. "Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil." ~ Maximilien Robespierre
7. "The king must die so that the country can live." ~ Maximilien Robespierre
8. "Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime." ~ Maximilien Robespierre
9. "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." ~ Maximilien Robespierre

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We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on."
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