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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue,

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

Denis Diderot
Country, Believe, Vices
"Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot
Country, Europe, Government
"Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?

Denis Diderot
Country, Men, Thinking

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