tomjmaxwell on Nostr: One of my top five favorite quotes: “But there do exist, I can assure you, souls ...
One of my top five favorite quotes:
“But there do exist, I can assure you, souls that are feeling and pure; it exists, that tender, imperious, and irresistible passion, the torment and delight of magnanimous hearts; that deep horror of tyranny, that compassionate zeal for the oppressed, that sacred love for the homeland, that even more sublime and holy love for humanity, without which a great revolution is just a noisy crime that destroys another crime…”
— Maximilien Robespierre, “Speech of 8 Thermidor Year II” (26 July 1794)
“But there do exist, I can assure you, souls that are feeling and pure; it exists, that tender, imperious, and irresistible passion, the torment and delight of magnanimous hearts; that deep horror of tyranny, that compassionate zeal for the oppressed, that sacred love for the homeland, that even more sublime and holy love for humanity, without which a great revolution is just a noisy crime that destroys another crime…”
— Maximilien Robespierre, “Speech of 8 Thermidor Year II” (26 July 1794)