François-Noël Babeuf Quotes

Relearning and more difficult than learning.

Feudalism is but a system of Slaves and Tyrants; my country, desiring to be free, can no longer preserve anything in this system.

If the people are sovereign, they must themselves exercise as much as they can of the sovereignty.

Admettre l'inégalité, c'est souscrire à une dépravation de l'espèce.

Je fais vœu de d'appeler prêtre c'est-à-dire charlatans, imposteurs tous ceux que je verrai dévier de la ligne des droits de l'homme.

Il n'est et ne sera que l'avocat des pauvres. (1786)

The true citizen prefers the general advantage to his advantage.

N'impose pas non plus silence à ce sexe qui ne mérite pas qu'on le méprise.

I vow to call a priest, in other words, charlatans, impostors, all those whom I shall see deviate from the line of the rights of man.

I confess today in good faith that I am angry with myself for having formerly seen in a bad light, and the revolutionary government, and Robespierre and Saint-Just. I believe that these men were worth more on their own than all the revolutionaries together.

... children of ignorance, who have at all times made the misfortunes of the human races.

There has never been anything great done in the world except through the courage and resolve of one man who defies the prejudices of the multitude.

The husband and the wife must be equal.

L'avis que tu nous donnes sur la partie qu'on peut en tirer des femmes est sensé et judicieux; nous en profiterons. Nous connaissons toutes l'influences que peut avoir ce sexe intéressant qui ne supporte pas plus indifféremment que nous le joug de la tyrannie; et qui n'est doué d'un moindre courage, lorsqu'il s'agit de concourir à le briser.

No one can by the accumulation of all mediums deprive others of the instruction necessary for their happiness; the instruction must be communal.