Thoughts on { The mass of men consigned over to ignorance and prejudice | Nicolas de Condorcet, 1743-1794
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet
“The ancient laws of nearly every nation are nothing more than offences against justice by the powerful and violations of the rights of all for the interests of the few.”
Nicolas de Condorcet, Political Writings
“We behold vast countries groaning under slavery, and presenting nations in one place, degraded by the vices of civilization, so corrupt as to impede the progress of man; and in others, still vegetating in the infancy of its early age.”
Nicolas de Condorcet, Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
“Habit can so familiarise men with violations of their natural rights that those who have lost them neither think of protesting nor believe they are unjustly treated.”
Nicolas de Condorcet
“If every thing ought to assure us against that pusillanimous and corrupt system which condemns man to eternal oscillations between truth and falsehood, liberty and servitude, we must, at the same time, perceive that the light of information is spread over a small part only of our globe; and the number of those who possess real instruction, seems to vanish in the comparison with the mass of men consigned over to ignorance and prejudice.”
Nicolas de Condorcet, Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
“In spite of the transitory successes of prejudice and the support that it receives from the corruption of governments or peoples, truth alone will obtain a lasting victory.”
