Voltaire/works/historical

Famous quotes containing the words works and/or historical:

“The family that perseveres in good works will surely have an abundance of blessings.”
—Chinese proverb.

“We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)