Absurdities Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdities Absurdities Continue Absurdity Atrocities Belief Believe Believe Absurdities Commit Commit Atrocities Evil Long Mankind People People Believe Political Religion Truth
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“When you believe in absurdities, it will be very easy for you to commit atrocities.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human. — Clancy Brown Copy Share Image
The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long will this… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
For as long as we're plagued by religions, we'll be plagued by extremists, because there's nothing more extreme than believing the human race was… — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something. — William Wharton Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain in their own.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room… — William Osler Copy Share Image
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is considered that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?” — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
