Frases de Francisco Luís Gomes (17 citações)

“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.”

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Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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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)

“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.”

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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)

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

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Os Brâmanes, p. 53
Os Brâmanes (1866)

“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.”

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Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

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

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Francisco Luís Gomes

Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

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

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

“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.”

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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.”

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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)