The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The connection between vice and meanness is a fit subject for satire, but when the satire is a fact, it cuts with… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A good opinion of ourselves is exceedingly necessary in private life, but absolutely necessary in public life, and of the utmost importance… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“That in which every man is interested, is every man's duty to support. And any burden which falls equally on all men,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“for in proportion as the enemy despair of conquest, they will be trying the arts of seduction and the force of fear… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Whoever will take the trouble of reading the book ascribed to Isaiah, will find it one of the most wild and disorderly… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Her ideas of national honor seem devoid of that benevolence of heart, that universal expansion of philanthropy, and that triumph over the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Every history of the creation, and every traditionary account, whether from the lettered or unlettered world, however they may vary in their… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We have a perfect idea of a natural enemy when we think of the devil, because the enmity is perpetual, unalterable and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I remember the late Admiral Saunders declaring in the House of Commons, and that in the time of peace, 'That the city… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are certain circumstances, which, at the time of their happening, are a kind of riddles, and as every riddle is to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As to the ancient historians, from Herodotus to Tacitus , we credit them as far as they relate things probable and credible,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Were government a mere manufacture or article of commerce, immaterial by whom it should be made or sold, we might as well… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As politicians we ought not so much to ground our hopes on the reasonableness of the thing we ask, as on the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“That there are men in all countries to whom a state of war is a mine of wealth, is a fact never… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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