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"Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it." – Denis Diderot, Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (written in 1774 for Catherine the Great; published 1921).
"To you, a prostitute is some kind of beautiful object. You respect her as you do the Mona Lisa, in front of whom you also would not make an obscene gesture. But in so doing, you think nothing of depriving thousands of women of their souls and relegating them to an existence in an art gallery. As if we consort with them so artistically! Are we being honest when we call prostitution "poetic." I protest in the name of poetry. And we are being infinitely smug when, with…
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