Jean-Paul MaratMan has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.372Love
Jean-Paul MaratFive or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.302Humor
Jean-Paul MaratHow could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.285Thought
Jean-Paul MaratIn a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.287Hope
Jean-Paul MaratFive or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost th… ▶299Humanity
Jean-Paul MaratIt is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good g… ▶223Politics
Jean-Paul MaratNothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take the… ▶152HumanityTime
Jean-Paul Marat[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who… ▶188Humanity
Jean-Paul MaratJacobins, I have a truth to tell you. You do not know your most deadly enemies; they are the constitutional priests. It is they who protest most in the provinces against anarchist… ▶135DeathTruth
Jean-Paul MaratDon't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they wi… ▶1810DeathHumanity