Top 12 Raynal's Quotes
#1. When Lafayette met him in 1775, the first volume of Raynal's 1770 History of the Two Indies had already been banned, which is to say it was a popular success, the Catholic Church's Index of Forbidden Books being the unofficial bestseller list of the day.
Sarah Vowell
#2. The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.
John Peers
#3. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power.
Starhawk
#5. Wouldn't it be easier just to treat the information space as a public resource and tax or charge companies somehow for the benefit of using it?
Jaron Lanier
#6. For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).
Geneen Roth
#7. The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;
Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal
#9. Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.
Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal
#10. Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit
Marcel Proust
#11. Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way.
Guillaume-Thomas Francois Raynal
