Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. "

Related Quotes:

" The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. "

" One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. "

" Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. "

" The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. "

" You have to make it happen. "

" His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings. "

" Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. "

" The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. "

" Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. "

" The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. "

" In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. "

" Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. "

" If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. "

" If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. "

" We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. "

" The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. "

" Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. "

" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "

" The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. "

" Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. "

" We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. "

" All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. "

" Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. "

" Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. "

" The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. "

" It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. "

" There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. "

" It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. "

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

" Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. "