“It’s time to make your stand. It’s you against the world. It’s you contra mundum. This world is hell, but good, rational people of strong will can convert it into paradise.” — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
