Voltaire

Absent a quote from Volta, I guess one from Voltaire is ok for this topic.

Think Progress » Sanders: ‘I Do Not Want To See A Global Warming Bill Become A Bonanza For The Coal Industry’ 2010

Thomas Hobbes wrote on his bedsheets, and when those were full he "scrawled on his thighs"; Voltaire is said to have used his naked mistress's back for a desk.

Literary Life Dave Shiflett 2010

Voltaire is pointing out the irony he sees (as a Frenchman) of executing and therefore promoting the opposite behaviour of a victorious war leader for the violation of a Principle ofWar.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Pour encourager les autres” 2010

You know, the place was built in 1929 and it was called the Voltaire.

Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010

But, yes: as I say, Voltaire is an unconventional Catholic, like Cyrano de Bergerac; and that fact informs the sorts of fantastic literature they wrote (SF).

MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Antithetical to Religion? 2008

He took the name Voltaire during his first sojourn in the Bastille.

Archive 2009-02-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

Much like a reader today isn't able to grasp all the political and social criticism in Voltaire's Candide, I can see some works of Golden Age scifi having the same problem (we don't live in the cold war era anymore and that fear no longer drives us, as an example.)

Does Golden Age Science Fiction Suck? 2005

We cannot label Voltaire either spiritualist or materialist.

Voltaire 2007

Lamb, "you old lake poet, you rascally poet, why do you call Voltaire dull?"

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

Besides the criticism of the acting, he called Voltaire "the envious bard" because it was only with much reluctance and ill-humor that he permitted the performance of Iphigenie of Racine.

Historical Essays James Ford Rhodes 1887