Maximilien Robespierre Quotes about Revolution

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Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Maximilien Robespierre

Citizens, Want, Revolution

Maximilien Robespierre (2007). “Virtue and Terror”, New Left Books

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

Maximilien Robespierre

Justice, Revolution, Virtue

lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.

Maximilien Robespierre

Government, Justice, Revolution

Speech to the National Convention on February 05, 1794. "The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923." Book by Edward Hallett Carr, Volume 1, p. 154, 1951.