What concern to me are humanity, benevolence, modesty, temperance, gentleness, wisdom, piety, so long as half an ounce of lead shatters my body, and I die at twenty in torments unspeakable, surrounded by five or six thousand dead and dying while my eyes, opening for the last time, see the town I was born in delivered to fire and sword, and the last sounds that reach my ears are the shrieks of women and children expiring in the ruins — and the whole for the pretended interest of men that we do not know? –François-Marie Arouet, Voltaire,(1694-1778)
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710: Voltaire (1694-1778) – French philosopher, easily the most prolific writer in history, whose works epitomize the Age of Enlightenment, often attacking injustice and intolerance.