Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

More Quotes By Maximilien Robespierre

• 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.
• Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a...
• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less...
• The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe...
• The king must die so that the country can live.
• Softness to traitors will destroy us all.
• We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this...
• Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
• Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?
• When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him – that’s where the money is.
• By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
• The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its...
• Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.
• Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences,...