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Lying Quotes by Thomas Paine
- ...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
- There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained…
- Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called…
- It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.
- Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.
- That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
- Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in…
- Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate…
- There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him,…
- As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions…
- Prophesying is lying professionally.
- Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has…
- It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has…
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