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.”

“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.”