“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.”
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“Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.”
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“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
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