Long before the age of electric guitars and rock stars giving themselves single names such as Sting or Slash, a French writer named François-Marie Arouet did the same. He reinvented himself as Voltaire. Under that single banner, he wrote bold treatises challenging the norms and authorities du jour.
Following
are three biting quotes from Voltaire:
—"It
is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in
large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
—"It
is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are
wrong.”
—"To
succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be
well-mannered.”
—Mitchell
Hegman
