“La simple proclamation de l'égalité naturelle entre tous les hommes et de la fraternité qui doit les unir, sans distinction de races ou de cultures, a quelque chose de décevant pour l'esprit, parce qu'elle néglige une diversité de fait, qui s'oppose à l'observation…”
, 1952
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hommes , chose , homme , fait , esprit , culture , opposition , observateur , distinction , entrée , observation , parc , race , fraternité , diversité , égalité , proclamation , simpleClaude Lévi-Strauss 32
anthropologue et ethnologue français 1908–2009Citations similaires

I will say, then, that I am not nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the White and black races which will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of
Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858
Le Communisme comme réalité, 1981, Pensée Idéologique et pensée scientifique, Pensée petite-bourgeoise et pensée scientifique

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
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Dublinois, 1914, Un cas douloureux (A Painful Case)