Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a Great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. The people, the unfortunate, will always applaud me; I shall find detractors only among the rich and the guilty.
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Slavoj Žižek writes that for Robespierre atheism was "the ideology of the cynical-hedonistic aristocrats who had lost all sense of historical mission" (In Defense of Lost Causes. London: Verso, 2008, p. 499).