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He was a French lawyer and politician who became one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution and without his influence the revolution would have turned out a lot differently. Robespierre was heavily influenced by the theories of the popular philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau.<\/p>\n
This led to Robespierre’s belief in deism, democracy, and the natural goodness in man. Robespierre became increasingly popular for his attacks on the monarchy and his advocacy of democratic reforms.
\n(1758-1794)<\/p>\n
– Maximilien Robespierre Quotes –<\/b><\/p>\n
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.<\/strong> 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.<\/strong> Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.<\/strong> Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.<\/strong> Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.<\/strong> To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.<\/strong> Pity is treason.<\/strong> The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.<\/strong> Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.<\/strong> The king must die so that the country can live.<\/strong> The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.<\/strong> He was a French lawyer and politician who became one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution and without his influence the revolution would have turned out a lot differently. Robespierre was heavily influenced by the theories of the popular philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau. This led to Robespierre’s belief in deism, democracy, and the natural goodness in man. Robespierre became increasingly popular for his attacks on the monarchy and his advocacy of democratic reforms. (1758-1794) – Maximilien Robespierre Quotes – Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-authors","category-news","tag-maximilien-robespierre-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldenproverbs.com\/testsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n~ Maximilien Robespierre<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\n~ Maximilien Robespierre<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n~ Maximilien Robespierre<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n~ Maximilien Robespierre<\/strong><\/p>\n
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