Jean-Paul Marat quotes

" Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers. " # Conservatives # Happiness # Love

" Robertspiere [sic], Robertspiere alone in vain raised his voice against the perfidious decree regarding superior conscripts, but his voice was muffled. " # Causes # Love # Morality

" People, give thanks to the gods! Your most redoubtable enemy has fallen beneath the scythe of Fate. Riquetti [Mirabeau] is no more; he dies victim of his numerous treasons, victim of his too tardy scruples, victim of the barbarous foresight of his atrocious accomplices. Adroit rogues who are to be found in all circles have sought to play upon your pity, and already duped by their false discourse, you mourn this traitor as the most zealous of your defenders; they have represented his death as a public calamity, and you bewail him as a hero, as the savior of your country, who has sacrificed himself for you. Will you always be deaf to the voice of prudence; will you always sacrifice public affairs to your blindness? …Beware of prostituting your incense. " # Death and Dying # Love # Sacrifice

" I believe in the cutting off of heads. " # Belief

" Robespierre listened to me with terror. He grew pale and silent for some time. This interview confirmed me in the opinion that I always had of him, that he unites the knowledge of a wise senator with the integrity of a thoroughly good man and the zeal of a true patriot but that he is lacking as a statesman in clearness of vision and determination. " # Politicians and Politics # Patriotism # Zeal

" I propose that the Convention shall decree complete freedom in the expression of opinion, so that I may send to the scaffold the faction [Gironde] that voted for my impeachment. " # Media # Freedom # Voting

" Fifty years of anarchy await you, and you will emerge from it only by the power of some dictator who will arise- a true statesman and patriot. O prating people, if you did but know how to act! " # Patriotism # Politicians and Politics # Age and Aging

" Let us tax the rich to subsidize the poor. " # Taxes and Taxation # Thoughts and Thinking # Poverty and The Poor

" I am the anger, the just anger of the people, and that is why they listen to me and believe in me. " # Anger # Belief # Listening

" In order to ensure public tranquility, two hundred thousand heads must be cut off. " # Politics