Francisco Luís Gomes Quotes

Francisco Luís Gomes was a Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, political scientist and MP in the Portuguese parliament. A classical liberal by political orientation, Gomes represented Portuguese India in the Cortes Gerais from 1861 to 1869. His outstanding contributions towards the fields of classical liberal philosophy and economics led him to be widely hailed as "The Prince of Intellectuals" in Europe. Wikipedia

✵ 31. May 1829 – 30. September 1869

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Famous Francisco Luís Gomes Quotes

“The biography of a minister is bound to be a work of moral and political importance.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Le Marquis de Pombal, p. 5
Le marquis de Pombal (1869)

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

Francisco Luís Gomes

Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

“All impartial men who are moved by justice and not by racialism want India to be ruled by Indians.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Os Brâmanes. Quoted by Sisir Kumar Das in History of Indian Literature: .1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy, p. 101
Os Brâmanes (1866)

“Gambling is the contraction of all vices into one.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Os Brâmanes, p. 53
Os Brâmanes (1866)

“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

A Liberdade da Terra e a Economia Rural da India Portuguesa (1862), Introduction. Quoted by Teotonio R. de Souza in Essays in Goan history (1989), p. 137
A Liberdade da Terra e a Economia Rural da India Portuguesa (1862)

“Portugal converted a portion of India to the Catholic religion with the arms of her soldiers, with the blood of her martyrs, with the miracles of her saints, and with the fires of her Inquisition. Those who were vanquished in this struggle became Christians and Portuguese. England might imitate the example, except as regards force.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

Francisco Luís Gomes Quotes about laws

“It is said that the law of Christ governs European civilization. That is a lie. It shines on it's surface, but does not penetrate to it's entrails.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Os Brâmanes (1866). p. 107
Os Brâmanes (1866)

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

Francisco Luís Gomes

Os Brâmanes, p. 33
Os Brâmanes (1866)

“It is necessary that the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, eternal in their duration, be universal in their application, that being realized in institutions, law and customs, they spread over the surface of the globe and filter down to it's lowest strata. Only then shall the regeneration of man be accomplished.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Os Brâmanes (1866). Quoted by Teotonio R. de Souza in Essays in Goan history (1989), p. 137
Os Brâmanes (1866)

Francisco Luís Gomes Quotes

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

Francisco Luís Gomes

Le Marquis de Pombal, p. 377
Le marquis de Pombal (1869)

“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.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

“Ethics is the science of duties, and it's principles, perceived by reason, and revealed to us by conscience.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Essai sur la théorie de l'économie politique et de ses rapports avec la morale et le droit. (1867). Quoted by Teotonio R. de Souza in Indo-Portuguese history (1985), p. 210
Essai sur la théorie de l'économie politique et de ses rapports avec la morale et le droit (1867)

“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.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Os Brâmanes, p. 147
Os Brâmanes (1866)

“I was born in the East Indies, once the cradle of poetry, philosophy and history and now their tomb. I belong to that race which composed the Mahabharata and invented chess. But this nation which made codes of it's poems and formulated politics in a game is no longer alive! It survives imprisoned in it's own country. I asked for India liberty and light; as for myself, more happy than my countrymen, i am free - civis sum.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

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

Francisco Luís Gomes

Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

“The Brahmins are a dynasty and a caste. Brahma is the sun and its rays Brahmins. The Brahmans left the mouth of God as the purest of their verbs, and the Sudras were born from the feet, as the vilest dust. It is not for the sudra or touch the outcast Brahmins, is not given as the roots touch the flowers, or the sole of the foot touching the mouth. The hands that touch the outcast Brahmin in print in him the indelible stamp of hell, the purity of the Brahmin is like the dew drop on the sheet, which only disappears forever when you touch him.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Os Brâmanes, p. 474
Os Brâmanes (1866)

“Being a good administrator and a bad politician, Pombal was not always a happy legislator.”

Francisco Luís Gomes

Le Marquis de Pombal, p. 374
Le marquis de Pombal (1869)

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