The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Andre Malraux

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The Holocaust

Author

Andre Malraux

Language

French

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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France Europe

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Citation

Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.

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The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the cause of its destruction.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source
The Social Contract
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Time
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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 3, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 3, ch. 11.