I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. Evelyn Beatrice Hall More Quotes by Evelyn Beatrice Hall More Quotes From Evelyn Beatrice Hall I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. Evelyn Beatrice Hall inspirationallifefunny There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. Evelyn Beatrice Hall naturekindnessretirement It is by character and not by intellect the world is won. Evelyn Beatrice Hall intellectcharacterworld I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Evelyn Beatrice Hall libertyfoundwriting He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation. Evelyn Beatrice Hall desolationdepthlost A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. Evelyn Beatrice Hall platonic-friendshipthird-personthirds The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit. Evelyn Beatrice Hall borntalentblessing If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals. Evelyn Beatrice Hall teethmenmean It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation. Evelyn Beatrice Hall sacrificefatherbook All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. Evelyn Beatrice Hall avalanchesreformmen
