This doctrine is contradicted by facts as much as it is shocking to reason.
Category: Good intentions
COBDEN AND THE LEAGUE
Any substantial social progress can only follow the material improvement in the people’s condition.
SEVENTH SPEECH
Free-trade is the cause, or at least one of the aspects of the great cause of the people, the masses, democracy.
SIXTH SPEECH
What is a privilege to some is a servitude to others.
LAZINESS AND RESTRICTION
It may well work. However, is this part of the mission of governments?
ABOUT THEORIES
Using the excuse of supporting the wages of the workers, you are supporting your own profits.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
Nowadays, socialism has become synonymous with progress; anybody who craves for any type of change is a socialist.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
There is only one thing the public doesn’t want to deal with, and that is public affairs.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
It is really difficult for our prejudices to allow us, not only to judge correctly, but even to see the facts as they are.
EVIL
I have never doubted that the socialists have led astray many generous hearts and sincere minds.
POPULATION
There is a fundamental difference between the physiological capacity for reproduction and actual reproduction.
WAGES
For the moment, one would have thought that the human heart itself was about to undergo a great transformation and, shaking off the yoke of self-interest, would henceforth be guided by nothing less than the purest forms of self-sacrifice.
WEALTH.
Without perceiving what is happening, he will permit himself to be carried along, content merely to consider effects, obstacles, the interests of the producer, and worse yet, to confuse those interests with the public interest. This, in fact, amounts to choosing the ills instead of the benefits…
ON VALUE.
When we compare the height of two trees, their heights and the difference between their heights are distinct from our evaluation of them.
FREE CREDIT
If there were no more thieves among us, we would all be upright and happy! This is socialism’s statement of principles!
FREE CREDIT
When it is a question of examining the general laws that society obeys, the way men behave universally carries more weight than a few utterances.
JUSTICE AND FRATERNITY
The law says: Do not unto others as you would not have them do unto you.
And I say to you: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
22. – A DISASTROUS REMEDY.
However, it is not the goodness of the intention that makes the goodness of the medicine.
14. – ANGLOMANIA, ANGLOPHOBIA.
For me there is just one truth and one justice, and equality takes the same form everywhere. I also think that liberty always produces the same results everywhere and that a fraternal and friendly link should unite the weak and oppressed in all countries.