Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. – Denis Diderot
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. – Denis Diderot
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud