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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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

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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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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.

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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

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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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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

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

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Illuminate the opposition.

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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.

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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

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