Francois-Noel Babeuf quotes

We must advance ... because Christianity and Freedom are incompatible. (Francois-Noel Babeuf)
Nature having given no property to anyone. View quote
Francois-Noel Babeuf
The knowledge of feudal practices is the reason why I was perhaps the most formidable scourge of feudalism. View quote
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No one can by monopolization deprive others of the instruction necessary for their happiness; the instruction must be communal. View quote
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Feudalism is but a system of Slaves and Tyrants; my country, desiring to be free, can no longer preserve anything in this system. View quote
Francois-Noel Babeuf
The pretended superiority of man over woman, and the despotic authority which he arrogates to himself, have the same origin as the domination of the nobility. View quote
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The husband and the wife must be equal. View quote
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Education is a monstrosity when it is unequal, when it is the exclusive patrimony of one class of the society; because education then becomes the controlling hand of this class, a mass of mechanisms, a provision of weapons of all kinds, by which the ruling class combats the other class, which is disarmed. View quote
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If the people are sovereign, they must themselves exercise as much as they can of the sovereignty. View quote
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Nor does it impose silence on this sex which does not deserve to be despised. View quote
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Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others. (Francois-Noel Babeuf)
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last. View quote
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The opinion which you give us the contribution which can be derived from women is sensible and judicious. We will benefit. We all know the influence which this interesting sex can possess, which cannot bear more indifferently than we the yoke of tyranny. And which is endowed with less courage, when it is a question of contriving to break it. View quote
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Admitting inequality means subscribing to a depravity of the species. View quote
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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 men. View quote
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I confess today in good faith that I am angry with myself for having formerly seen in a bad light, within the revolutionary government, Robespierre and Saint-Just. I believe that these two men were better on their own than all the revolutionaries together. View quote
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... children of ignorance, who have at all times made the misfortunes of the human races. View quote
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We shall distinguish in Robespierre two men, apostle of liberty, and Robespierre the most infamous of tyrants. View quote
Francois-Noel Babeuf
There has never been anything great in the world except through the courage and resolve of one man who defies the prejudices of the multitude. View quote
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It was in the dust of the seigneurial archives that I discovered the frightful mysteries of the usurpations of the noble caste. View quote
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Relearning and more difficult than learning. (Francois-Noel Babeuf)
Property is odious in its principle and murderous in its effects. View quote
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The true citizen prefers the general advantage to his advantage. View quote
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It is the system of great landed estates which invented and sustains the trafficking of whites and blacks who sell and buy men. ... It is this system which in the colonies gives the blacks of our plantations only a blow with a whip and a morsel of bread. View quote
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He is and will be an advocate only for the poor. View quote
Francois-Noel Babeuf