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.

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

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.

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

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

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