Indeed my dear, you can see in what sort of illusion we are living in France, when we believe to be at the pinacle of intellectual civilisation.
Category: Contempt
BARATARIA
He, who dares to embark on instituting a people needs to feel capable of twisting, so to speak, human nature, and change each individual.
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
“My dear conspiracy theorists”. I do not consider it a disgrace if this expression, or any other, is applied to me when following my conscience in the pursuit of a legitimate objective with legitimate means.
LETTERS TO RICHARD COBDEN
And I am astonished when I think about it,
How the human mind can sink so low.
POPULATION
This is the way an opinion gains acceptance in France. Fifty ignoramuses repeat in chorus some absurd libel that has been thought up by an even bigger ignoramus; and, if only it happens to coincide to some slight degree with prevailing attitudes and passions, it becomes a self-evident truth.
MAN’S WANTS.
Many economic errors are due to the fact that human wants are considered as a fixed quantity;
SPEECH ON THE REPRESSION OF INDUSTRIAL UNIONS
You then say that when the workers form a union they harm themselves, and you use this basis to say that the law should prevent the stoppage of work.
FREE CREDIT
For my part, I would a thousand times rather be condemned for my frankness than be seen as clearly lacking what is man’s finest quality, the one that defines his power and his essence.
BACCALAUREATE AND SOCIALISM
For men to exist, it is absolutely necessary for this action on nature, which we call work, to be carried out.