And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
– Daniel Defoe
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
– Daniel Defoe
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
– Daniel Defoe
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
– Daniel Defoe
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
– Daniel Defoe
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.