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

...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.

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

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

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

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

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