Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 7, 1772 Death: October 10, 1837
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false ….
Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease..
Attractions are proportional to destinies..
To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove wi….
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence..
Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him..
Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people..
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?.
...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those….
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women..
Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish..
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities..
One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress..
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose..