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

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

...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.

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

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 with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

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