 Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. |
| To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. |
| The king must die so that the country can live. |
| Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. |
| Pity is treason. Topics: Short |
| The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. |
| The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. |
| Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. |
