“A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.”
“An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.”
“...more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition.”
“Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.”
“...what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!”
“The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.”