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Maximilien Robespierre

"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty."

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"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty."

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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

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"Justice is blind, but judges have eyes."

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"No cause occurs without effect, and no effect occurs without cause. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe."

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"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
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