There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. — 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
