#voltaire

One does not arrest Voltaire. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#does #voltaire

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind. ↗

— Émilie Du Châtelet

#engineering #math #passonate-minds #rights #science

It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom. ↗

— Voltaire

#voltaire #faith

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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