Attractions are proportional to destinies.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.