No man has received from nature the right – Quote by Denis Diderot

„No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.“

Denis DiderotQuote by Denis Diderot about the lack of natural right to command others.
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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) was a French Enlightenment philosopher, writer, encyclopedist, and literary and art theorist.

A quote from Denis Diderot on natural equality and the rejection of human domination.


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Denis Diderot was a leading figure of the French Enlightenment. He is best known as the chief editor of the Encyclopédie, one of the most important works of the 18th century, and as a significant philosopher advocating reason, science, and skepticism towards dogma.

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"All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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"If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of Almighty God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." Samuel Adams
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