Jean-Paul Marat Quotes

All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

Burn the Cossacks, leave nothing behind; slaughter the people; strap the ringleaders to the wheel and impale them; for this mob cannot be pacified except by cruelty.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Around him are the riffraff of thick-skinned party leaders. He plays off the half-humans with favours. Forging edict after edict as if they were horseshoes- Shoots some in the forehead, others in the chest, the eye, the groin. Everyday he has an execution -- for our Broadchested Georgian it's like picking raspberries

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

Things are being done in Ireland which would disgrace the blackest annals of the lowest despotism in Europe.

the Distress of our oppressed Country, which now unjustly feels the baneful Effects of arbitrary Power.

War is the second worst activity of mankind, the worst being acquiescence in slavery.