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Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution QUOTES

Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution QUOTES

1 " The idea of a specifically Robespierrist terror was a myth, invented by the Termidoreans, the men who overthrew Robespierre, who themselves were very much implicated in the recourse to terror. "

― , Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution

2 " The Jacobin leaders were beset on many sides by enemies, both open and covert. But in the end the most dangerous and unforgiving enemies they faced were themselves. In choosing terror, they chose a path that led to self-destruction. "

― , Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution

3 " In the sense of worldly advantage, it no longer signified whether people thought of him as having been an authentic man of virtue. There was no more political power or influence
to be gained from maintaining that identity. But to him it still mattered. "

― , Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution