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

Is it not He whose immortal hand... has written there the death sentence of tyrants? He did not create kings to devour the human race. He did not create priests to harness us, like vile animals, to the chariots of kings and to give to the world examples of baseness, pride, perfidy, avarice, debauchery and falsehood. He created the universe to proclaim His power.

[The Cult of the Supreme Being]

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.

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