A propósito del día de la Bastilla, que fue ayer, algunas citas del documental Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution, de la BBC con participación de Simon Schama y Slavoj Zizek:
Saint-Just: We must govern by iron those who will not be governed by justice!
Robespierre: Terror is prompt and severe justice.
Saint-Just: You should be cleared when you speak of happiness Maxime... some people still confuse it with pleasure.
Robespierre: On a plurar of conscience there's a conspiracy
Carnot: You see a bunch of heads in a basket and you see a conspiracy! See how intimate they are, how furtive they look... How do you know a denounciation is true? [...] We see a man strapped to a board with a blade above his head and we say 'there's evidence, he must be guilty or he wouldn't be there!'
Robespierre: What would you have us do Carnot? When we are nearly there! Fall back into bad habits and imperil the Republic again?! He who undertakes to create a people must see himself involved, so to speak, in changeing human nature...
Carnot: So to speak?
Robespierre: Your point?
Carnot: Oh, we could argue about Rousseau all day Maxime, and still not agree! Argue with himself for a lifetime...
Robespierre: Oh of course, but we don't have that luxury...
Carnot: Precisely!
Robespierre: Innocence never fears public scrutiny Carnot! He who trembles at this moment is guilty.
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Cuántos idiomas manejas?
me impresionas
No deberías lovidar que estas palabras las han puesto en la boca de los revolucionarios los propagandistas de BBC. No hay que confundir la historia con la ficción.
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