"We do not have monarchies by divine right, we do not lack influential and wealthy clergy, we do not want rich families between the crown and the people. What we are looking for is equal rights for the people, and uniform distribution of goods. It is time for democratizing the right to property."

Francisco Luís Gomes Politics See all quotes by Francisco Luís Gomes →

React to this quote

More by Francisco Luís Gomes

“What use is equality in theory and in law, if it does not penetrate into our customs?”

“The revolt was the sepoy; the revolution would have been the people; the revolt was revenge; the revolution would have been the Idea; the revolt was the cruel Vishnu; the revolution would have been the mild Shiva.”

“His glory and greatness suffer from the wrongs he did his fellow men and from the methods he employed.”

“The most powerful instruments of civilization are two - the Christian religion, and education.”

“To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanical; what they cannot consent to is that the domination be exploitation instead of paternal tutelage.”

“Cholera and the Thug were born in the same country and in the same year. India is their native land.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom."

— Mignon McLaughlin

Journalism1913–1983

#money

"And yet he had a thomb of gold parde."

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Literature1343–1400

#money

"Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself w…"

— Kenneth Grahame

Literature1859–1932

#nature

"The Mutakallemim... apply the term non-existence only to absolute non-existence, and not to absence of properties. A property and the absence of that property are considered by them as two opposites, …"

— Maimonides

Religion1135–1204

#life