To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. Claude Adrien Helvetius More Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius More Quotes From Claude Adrien Helvetius He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act. Claude Adrien Helvetius principal motive passion All men have an equal disposition for understanding. Claude Adrien Helvetius disposition understanding men Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. Claude Adrien Helvetius discipline military art Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it Claude Adrien Helvetius sacrifice church people Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living. Claude Adrien Helvetius envy honor order Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. Claude Adrien Helvetius hate vices men By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Claude Adrien Helvetius you man mind action
