“There is no valid virtue without piety, and there is no authentic piety without virtue.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 70, 978-1-936597-32-1]
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“There is no access to the Heart without the virtues.”
[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 16, 978-1-93659700-0]
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Speech to the National Convention, (5 February 1794), as quoted in The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923, Vol. 1 (1951) by Edward Hallett Carr, p. 154 <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">The attribute of popular government in a revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror. Terror without virtue is fatal; virtue without terror is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue. <br class="br">As quoted in Red Star Over Southern Africa (1988) by Morgan Norval, p. xvi <br class="br">If the mainspring of popular government in peace time is virtue, its resource during a revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is merely terrible; terror, without which virtue is simply powerless. <br class="br">As quoted in Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism (1999) by Gregory Dart <br class="br">Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs. <br class="br">Original French: La terreur n'est autre chose que la justice prompte, sévère, inflexible; elle est donc une émanation de la vertu ; elle est moins un principe particulier, qu’une conséquence du principe général de la démocratie, appliqué aux plus pressants besoins de la patrie. <br class="br">From Sur les principes de morale politique http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/discours/robespierre_principes_morale_politique_05_02_94.htm
