CSU Bartolome Voltaire and Rene Descartes Quotes Paper
Question Description
Match the person with the quotation. Not all answers will be used.
Frederick II
Madame du Châtelet
Rene Descartes
Voltaire
Michel de Montaigne
A.
“[I have to] enlighten mind, cultivate morality, and make the people as happy as suits human nature, and as the means at my disposal permit.”
B.
“I find that there is nothing barbarous and savage in this nation [Brazil],…except, that everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not according to his usage.”
C.
“…the citizen only depends on the laws which protect the freedom of the feeble against the ambitions of the strong.”
D.
“It was upon these gentle lambs [that] the Spanish fell like ravening wolves upon the fields, or like tigers and savage lions who have not eaten meat for days. The pattern established at the outset has remained unchanged to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them, and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying ad persecuting them mercilessly.”
E.
“This legislative is not only the supreme power of the commonwealth, but sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it .”
F.
“I attach more weight to her judgment than to those messieurs the Doctors, who take for a rule of truth the opinions of Aristotle rather than the evidence of reason.”
G.
“I would reform an abuse which cuts off, so to speak, half the human race. I would make women participate in all the rights of humankind, and above all in those of the intellect.”
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