Ignorance Quotes by Thomas Paine

14 Ignorance quotes by Thomas Paine

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Paine’s pen never shied away from confronting the blind spots that bind societies. In this quartet of fourteen, his fiery rhetoric challenges the complacency that stalls progress.

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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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“Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

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“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”

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The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

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How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to…

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A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires…

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We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world,…

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Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,…

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It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in…

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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently…

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As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent…

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“Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,…

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When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be…

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“Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may…

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“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.”

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The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief…

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

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Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

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What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that…

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

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“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on…

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But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

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Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter…

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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

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“To pass from the extremes of danger to safety-from the tumult of war to the tranquility of peace, though sweet in contemplation, requires a…

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What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe…

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