Revolutionary Terror Quotes



Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.
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Vladimir Lenin. For most of the world it was shocking how determined the Russians were to use terror against the counterrevolutionaries. However, after Lenin’s death, the terror used by Stalin exceeded anything in the previous 300 years.

Karl Marx
Karl Marx

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.
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Julius Martov
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The Bolshevik Smidovich gave a written promise to spare the lives of those Junkers who surrendered, and then allowed the prisoners to be beaten to death one by one. … General Dukhonin surrendered to Krylenko, who in turn offered Dukhonin no protection as he was torn limb from limb before his very eyes. The murderers remained unpunished.
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Yuliy Osipovich Martov. Criticism of the Bolshevik behavior in dealing with counter-revolutionaries in the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. This despite the fact that the death penalty had been abolished right after the Revolution. See {590510}

Georges Jacques Danton
Georges Jacques Danton

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.
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Georges Jacques Danton
Georges Jacques Danton

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.
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Georg Buchner
Georg Buchner

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
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Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.
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