Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

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

The king must die so that the country can live.

Pity is treason.

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