Denis Diderot quote about violence from Rameau's Nephew - If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.
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“ If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother. ”
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Author Denis Diderot
Source Rameau's Nephew
Topic violence education savagery
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Language English
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Note Translated by Margaret Mauldon
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“Si le petit sauvage était abandonné à lui-même, qu'il conservât toute son imbécillité, et qu'il réunît au peu de raison de l'enfant au berceau la violence des passions de l'homme de trente ans, il tordrait le cou à son père, et...” Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau

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Denis Diderot quote about violence from Rameau's Nephew - If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.
Denis Diderot quote about violence from Rameau's Nephew - If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.