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

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.

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 virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

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

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