O shameful philanthropists! O philosophers, without heart or imagination! Do you think that man is a machine like the rest of your machines? You depr… - Eugène Delacroix

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O shameful philanthropists! O philosophers, without heart or imagination! Do you think that man is a machine like the rest of your machines? You deprive him of his most sacred rights on the pretext of saving him from work which you pretend to consider beneath his dignity, but which is, in fact, the very law of his existence (Monday 16 May 1853).

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About Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix (April 26 1798 – August 13 1863) was a French painter, one of the leading artists of Romanticism in Europe of the nineteenth century.

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Alternative Names: Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix Eugene Delacroix Ferdinand-Eugène-Victor Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix Ferdinand-Eugene-Victor Delacroix Delacroix
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