Beside him, Robespierre’s voice was running on: ‘… and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero – a sort of effacement of oneself from history. The entire record of the human race has been falsified, it has been made up by bad governments to suit themselves, by kings and tyrants to make them look good. This idea of history as made by great men is quite nonsensical, when you look at it from the point of view of the people. The real heroes are those who have resisted tyrants, and it is in the nature of tyranny not
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