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

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

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

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.

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

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