Adam Weishaupt Quotes, Order Quotes, Should Have Quotes

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

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Illuminate the opposition.

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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

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We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.

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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

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