Absurdities Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdities Absurdities Shall Absurdity Atheist Atrocities Believe Believe Absurdities Commit Commit Atrocities Ifs Positive atheism
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to 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
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Anonymous 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
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity. — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head… — George Berkeley 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
