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Would Be Quotes by Thomas Paine
- ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of…
- The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all…
- It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a…
- There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are…
- I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns.…
- To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of…
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a…
- Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in…
- Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius