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: Hubris
TO THE EDITOR OF LE NATIONAL – I
Should we kill them in order to teach them how to live?
SECOND LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS
Our current tariffs are calculated to cater for an order of things that will of course cease to be.
WHAT IS TRADE?
This doctrine is contradicted by facts as much as it is shocking to reason.
LETTERS TO MR. FELIX COUDROY
Supervising the newspaper, giving a lecture to the youth in the schools, is this not better than being a Member of Parliament?
POPULATION
It is therefore not surprising that in seeking to make of this equation something more exact than its nature permits of, economists have managed to create more disagreement than unity of opinion, for there is not one term in the formulas they employ that is not open to a host of objections, based both on theory and on fact.
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.
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.
FREE CREDIT
But I, for my part, thought that we made the law and that we paid the State to protect our rights, and not to destroy them.