Diderot

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    What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)