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All impartial men who are moved by justice and not by racialism want India to be ruled by Indians.
Os Brâmanes (1866)
Being a good administrator and a bad politician, Pombal was not always a happy legislator.
Le marquis de Pombal (1869)
Ethics is the science of duties, and it's principles, perceived by reason, and revealed to us by conscience.
Essai sur la théorie de l'économie politique et de ses rapports avec la morale et le droit (1867)
What use is equality in theory and in law, if it does not penetrate into our customs?
Os Brâmanes (1866)
Gambling is the contraction of all vices into one.
Os Brâmanes (1866)
His glory and greatness suffer from the wrongs he did his fellow men and from the methods he employed.
Le marquis de Pombal (1869)
The biography of a minister is bound to be a work of moral and political importance.
Le marquis de Pombal (1869)
The most powerful instruments of civilization are two - the Christian religion, and education.
Cholera and the Thug were born in the same country and in the same year. India is their native land.
It is said that the law of Christ governs European civilization. That is a lie. It shines on it's surface, but does not penetrate to it's entrails.
Os Brâmanes (1866)
To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanical; what they cannot consent to is that the domination be exploitation instead of paternal tutelage.
The revolt was the sepoy; the revolution would have been the people; the revolt was revenge; the revolution would have been the Idea; the revolt was the cruel Vishnu; the revolution would have been the mild Shiva.
Os Brâmanes (1866)
It is necessary that the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, eternal in their duration, be universal in their application, that being realized in institutions, law and customs, they spread over the surface of the globe and filter down to it's lowest strata. Only then shall the regeneration of man be accomplished.
Os Brâmanes (1866)
We do not have monarchies by divine right, we do not lack influential and wealthy clergy, we do not want rich families between the crown and the people. What we are looking for is equal rights for the people, and uniform distribution of goods. It is time for democratizing the right to property.
A Liberdade da Terra e a Economia Rural da India Portuguesa (1862)
Portugal converted a portion of India to the Catholic religion with the arms of her soldiers, with the blood of her martyrs, with the miracles of her saints, and with the fires of her Inquisition. Those who were vanquished in this struggle became Christians and Portuguese. England might imitate the example, except as regards force.