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
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“The dead govern the living.”
Le Catéchisme positiviste (1852) -
Attributed to Auguste Comte:
“Demography is destiny.”
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“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