It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
VoltaireVery learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
VoltaireThere are barbarians who seize this dog, who so prodigiously surpasses man in friendship, and nail him down to a table, and dissect him alive to show you the mezaraic veins... Answer me, Machinist, has Nature really arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?
Voltaire