Report on the Principles of Political Morality Quotes

“Virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality

“If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at the same time [both] virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.”
― Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality