I do not wish them [women] to have power over men, but over themselves.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Make them free ... or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to. retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insects whom he keeps under his feet.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?