"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
― Denis Diderot
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Government
― Denis Diderot
More From Denis Diderot
- "Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man."
- "Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."
- "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."
More In Government
- "There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience."― Stokely Carmichael
- "As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time."― Tom Waits
- "The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."― Voltaire