Atrocities Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atrocities Believe Skepticism
“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
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier 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
A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open… — Anonymous 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
“I do not know where Viktor and Rudolf were taken. I cannot find the records. I never Elisabeth or Iggie. It is possible that… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even… — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem… — Lisa Shannon Copy Share Image
War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war. — Mike Hoffman Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the… — KGE Konkel Copy Share Image