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Pierre Leroux Quotes

Pierre-Henri Leroux was a French philosopher, journalist, and one of the founders of nineteenth-century French socialism. Often credited with introducing the word socialisme into the French vocabulary in something like its modern sense, he co-founded the journal Le Globe and the Encyclopedie Nouvelle and wrote his major treatise On Humanity at his printing press in Boussac. The quotes below are attributed to Pierre Leroux, organized by topic.

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Pierre Leroux on Freedom

  • Attributed to Pierre Leroux:

    “Each generation must hand on the torch of liberty to the next.”

Pierre Leroux on Justice

  • Attributed to Pierre Leroux:

    “Equality is the natural condition of human beings before God.”

Pierre Leroux on Politics

  • Attributed to Pierre Leroux:

    “Socialism is the new religion of humanity.”

  • Attributed to Pierre Leroux:

    “Cooperation, not competition, is the law of progress.”

  • Attributed to Pierre Leroux:

    “The state owes every citizen the means of a humane life.”

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Pierre Leroux on Time

  • “Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe 200-1”

    Why should we now restrict ourselves to the Jewish Pantheon when we have been illuminated by this light which has begun to spread right across the horizon? ... Should we only recognize in humanity that isolated branch which is called Christianity, the revelation of Moses and that of Jesus? No. We desire a more ample Pantheon, one which answers to the name, so recently coined, of HUMANITY... We are