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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."
"Judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgement; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgement is God's."
"Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes."
"The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law's officers, which may at times assail the most honest."
"But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and assumes all the aspects of the syllogism. Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."
"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
Explore more quotes by Maximilien Robespierre
"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."
"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."
"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."
"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."
"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."
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