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.

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

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.