To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.