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Respect is owed to those who lead minds by the force of truth, not to conquerors who enslave their fellow creatures
Drawn from what Voltaire said
What Voltaire actually said
- Voltaire French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
That man claims our respect who commands over the minds of the rest of the world by the force of truth, not those who enslave their fellow-creatures: he who is acquainted with the universe, not they who deface it.
Where this was said
↗Letters on England (1733 English edition, ed. Henry Morley, 1894)gutenberg.org
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