Robespierre: The law, the public authority: is it not established to protect weakness against injustice and oppression? It is thus an offence to all social principles place it entirely in the hands of the rich. But the rich, the powerful, have reasoned differently, Through a strange abuse of words, they have restricted the general idea of property to certain objects only; they have called only themselves property owners: they have claimed that only property owners were worthy of the name of citizen; they have named their own particular interest the general interest, and to ensure the success of that claim, they have seized all social power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5392

Robespierre: What is a person who, among men equal in rights, dares to declare his fellows unworthy of exercising theirs, and to take them away for his own advantage! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5393

Robespierre: The people only ask for what is necessary, it only wants justice and tranquility, the rich aspire to everything, they want to invade and dominate everything. Abuses are the work and the domain of the rich, they are the scourges of the people: the interest of the people is the general interest, that of the rich is a particular interest. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5394

Robespierre: England! Ha! What good are they to you, England and its depraved constitution, which may have looked free to you when you had sunk to the lowest degree of servitude, but which it is high time to stop praising out of ignorance or habit! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5395

Robespierre: What is the first object of society? It is to maintain the imprescriptible rights of man. What is the first of those rights? The right to life. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5396