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Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great questions which interest them by stamping their prejudices upon their language.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)
Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)
To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)
Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)
I am not the advocate of Slavery, Caste, and Hatred, nor do I deny that a sense may be given to the words, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in which they may be regarded as good.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)
To say that the law of force is abandoned because force is regular, unopposed, and beneficially exercised, is to say that day and night are now such well-established institutions that the sun and moon are mere superfluities.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)
Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same... The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)