Jean-Paul Marat Quotes

• Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Cutting, Freedom And Happiness, Six

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• Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Heart, Men, Devouring

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• It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Men, Years, Stupidity

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• Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.

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  War, Believe, Taken

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• Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.

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  Selfish, Knives, People

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• In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Paris, Revolution, French Revolution

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• 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.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Brother, Blow, Humanity

  L'Ami du peuple newspaper, Volume 2, p. 1121,

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• Jacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who protest most in the provinces against anarchists, disorganisers, Dantonism, Robespierrism, Jacobinism... Do not cherish any longer the popular errors; cut at the roots of superstition! Declare openly that the priests are your enemies.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Cutting, Errors, Roots

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• No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Ignorant, Being Free, Liberty

  L'Ami du peuple newspaper, No. 559, August 27, 1791.

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• It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Fate, Men, People

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• How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Liberty, Revolution, Scene

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• Para formar una constitución verdaderamente libre, es decir, verdaderamente justa y sabia, el primer punto, el punto principal, el punto capital, es que todas las leyes sean acordadas por el pueblo, tras una reflexión ponderada, y sobre todo habiéndose tomado tiempo para ver lo que está en juego.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Wise, Taken, Reflection

  Letter to Camille Desmoulins on June 24, 1792. "Oeuvres de Camille Desmoulins", p. 76ff, 1874.

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• [We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Wise, Character, People

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