Vices Quotes by Thomas Paine

9 Vices quotes by Thomas Paine

Paine’s revolutionary spirit extends to his observations on vice, rendered here in nine short statements. They’re clear, compelling, and easy to digest.

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Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.

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Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die…

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Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter…

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Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.…

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When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry…

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We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but 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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It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices…

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Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it…

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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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