Curmudgeon Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curmudgeon Dangerous Democracies have Evil government Free government Freedom Freedom and liberty Freedom liberty Governing Government Government and politics Government politics Humorous Insanity Inspirational Libertarian Libertarian party Liberty Limitation Limited freedom Limited government Limits Political Political activism Political will Politics Religious War Wise words
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as right or wrong, it is all just a matter of opinion — Anonymous 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
Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. — Bill Fitch Copy Share Image
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But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I really liked playing [Wilson]. I started to really - I mean, I think the thing about him is he's not really a curmudgeon,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image