54 Quotes About French-philosopher

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.