Voltaire Quotes, Religious Quotes, Evil Quotes

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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Nature has always had more force than education.

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The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

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One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

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Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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