The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
