Robespierre: Citizens whose incomes do not exceed what is required for their subsistence are exempted from contributing to state expenditure; all others must support it progressively according to their wealth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5406
Robespierre: We want, in a word, to fulfil nature’s wishes, to further the destinies of humanity, to keep the promises of philosophy, to absolve providence of the long reign of crime and tyranny. So that France, once illustrious among enslaved countries, eclipsing the glory of all the free peoples that have existed, may become the model for all nations, the terror of oppressors, the consolation of the oppressed, the ornament of the universe. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5407
Robespierre: Democracy is a state in which the sovereign people, guided by laws which are its own work, does for itself all that it can do properly, and through delegates all that it cannot do for itself. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5408
Lenin: Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5409
Augusto Pinochet: Yesterday we were on the edge of the abyss. Today we have taken a step forward. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5410