Species Quotes by Thomas Paine

9 Species quotes by Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine’s nine sharp remarks on species reflect his revolutionary spirit, offering a succinct, thought‑challenging glimpse into his ideas.

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Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

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There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the…

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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and…

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Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the…

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But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the…

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Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not…

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Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a…

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The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that…

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As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial…

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“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its…

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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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