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Auguste Comte Quotes on Politics

Auguste Comte was a French philosopher and one of the founders of sociology, a term he coined. This page collects quotes attributed to Auguste Comte on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • “The dead govern the living.”

    Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852)
  • Attributed to Auguste Comte:

    “Demography is destiny.”

  • “Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy ?”

    As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay
  • “Foreknowledge is power .”

    As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan Lindsay Mackay