Francisco Luís Gomes: Principle

Francisco Luís Gomes was Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, political scientist and MP in the Portuguese parliament.. Explore interesting quotes on principle.

Francisco Luís Gomes: 34 quotes0 likes

“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

“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)

“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)