PDA

View Full Version : Voltaire: Racist


Joe McCarthy
08-16-2011, 10:15 PM
On niggers:

http://www.oodegr.com/english/atheismos/diafwt_ratsism.htm

Their round eyes, their flattened nose, their lips which are always large, their differently shaped ears, the wool of their head, that very measure of their intelligence, place prodigious differences between them and the other species of men.


And they are not men, except in their stature, with the faculty of speech and thought at a degree far distant to ours. Such are the ones that I have seen and examined.


And one could say that if their intelligence is not of another species than ours, then it is greatly inferior. They are not capable of paying much attention; they mingle very little, and they do not appear to be made either for the advantages or the abuses of our philosophy.


And it is a big question whether among them they are descendants of monkeys, or if monkeys come from them. Our wise men have said that man is the image of God: behold a pleasant image of the eternal Being with a flat black nose, with little or no intelligence! A time will come, without a doubt, when these animals will know how to cultivate the earth well, to embellish it with houses and gardens, and to know the routes of the stars. Time is a must, for everything.

Joe McCarthy
08-16-2011, 10:34 PM
http://www.philosophicalmisadventures.com/?p=6

FIPS
08-17-2011, 02:24 AM
.

I believe he thought rather lowly of Turks as well.

.

Joe McCarthy
08-17-2011, 02:41 AM
.

I believe he thought rather lowly of Turks as well.

.

'The tyrants of the women and the enemies of the arts'. Voltaire is what passed for liberalism in a more enlightened age.