[redacted: no source given]. Autore: Maximilien Robespierre Copy Quote More from Maximilien Robespierre “To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.” “It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your…” “Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down se…” “A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems s…”