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

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

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

...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.

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

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

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.