Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — 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
