In what text did voltaire say "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. "?
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Also translated as "Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust," the quote comes from Voltaire's "Questions sur les miracles" (1765).  \n\nIn the original French, the quote is: "Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste."
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"Man, as a curious accident in a backwater, is intelligible: his mixture of virtues and vices is such as might be expected to result from a fortuitous origin. But only abysmal self-complacency can see in Man a reason which Omniscience could consider adequate as a motive for the Creator. The Copernican revolution will not have done its work until it has taught men more modesty than is to be found among those who think Man sufficient evidence of Cosmic Purpose."  \n\nThe most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the lord god of creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
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Results 1 - 10 of about 259 for VOLTAIRES DICTIONARY-RELIGION - 0.47 sec. (About this page)\n\n Did you mean: VOLTAIRE'S DICTIONARY-RELIGION\nWEB RESULTS\nUngdomspastor'n  \n... dimensjonen i tilværelsen. Voltaires livshistorie. Voltaire ble født i Paris i 1694 ... I Websters Dictionary defineres religion som "et særegent trossystem eller tilbedelse, som ...experience.fanspace.com/oddvar/undervisning02.htm - 98k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nNotes on Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary  \nStudy Guide for Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary: (Selections) The most commonly taught book by Voltaire is his amusing satire on philosophical optimism, Candide. It was even made into a delightful musical by Leonard Bernstein. ... of speech, press, assembly, religion, and opposition to the ... at his time, organized religion in France (and elsewhere ...www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/hum_303/voltaire.html - 32k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nAmazon.co.uk: Candide and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics): Books  \n... Lyons (Editor) Philosophical Dictionary (Classics S.); Paperback ~ Voltaire ... Voltaires seminal tragi-comedic classic Candide ... disgust at organised religion and the violent religious ...www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192834266 - 49k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nI can't get out - Mushroom. [The Living age ... / Volume 3, Issue 25, November 2, 1844]  \n... with a little blame of Voltaires per. petual war on ... can eagerly read the Phi- losophical Dictionary and the Encyclopmedia ... his attacks on the Christian religion in. this way : lie ...bonus.com/contour/Northern_Great_Plains/http@@/lcweb2.loc.gov/... - 16k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nSkellarlist Francois Voltaire  \n... Philosophical Dictionary (The Penguin Classics) Voltaire, Theodore Besterman ... Voltaires Candide : Barron's Book Notes Francois M ... Voltaire on religion: selected writings Voltaire(Hard ...www.scenewash.org/contraband/voltaire.html - 17k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nAmazon.com: Voltaire's Bastards : The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Vintage): Books: John Ralston Saul  \n... The Doubter's Companion : A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul ... MAX WEBER on page 403, and Back Matter. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R.H ...www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679748199?v=glance - 129k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nVIII. Shakespeare: Life and Plays: Bibliography. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. The Cambridge History of ...  \n... Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l ...www.bartleby.com/215/0800.html - 176k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nAmazon.ca: Portable Voltaire: Books  \n... Dictionary," of which this volume contains a portion, Voltaire selects some terms and concepts from philosophy, religion ... but i doubt it, i trust in voltaires quality of work ...www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140150412 - 39k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nScientism: Encyclopedia topic  \n... definition: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language ... through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural) and ... is a character in voltaires novel candide ...www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/scientism - 20k - Cached - More from this site - Save - Block\nTwo Footnotes: Girard and Gans  \n... Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (1764) strikes me as an ... with the institution of religion in which, absorbed by ... conjoined, accommodates so many Voltaires and Rousseaux that hardly ...
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"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those that would do us harm." George Orwell  speaking of solders.\nAlso I love this one it is from Finding Foresster, "I'll take poor assumtions for 800 Alex."
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" the greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was to convince the world he didn't exist" - Usual Suspects\n\n"crucifixions a doddle!"  - Life of Brian
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Me? Absolutely none.\n\nThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin\n\nOne of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. – Thomas B. Reed (1886)\n\nIf you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)\n\nGovernment is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington\n\nThe true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke (1899)\n\nThe evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. – John Hay (1872)\n\nThe best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone. – Thomas Rudmose-Brown\n\nI should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. – Alexis De Toqueville\n\nThe whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken
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Voltaire.  It's my favorite quote.
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"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Leviticus 20:13.\n\nuse that one if you dont believe paul
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"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."\nby Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Twilight of the Idols (1899)
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Interesting. Where did you find the quote?
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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." \n- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)\n\n"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." \n- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) \n\n"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." \n- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) \n\n"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." \n- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat \n\n"His ignorance is encyclopedic" \n- Abba Eban (1915-2002) \n\n"If a man does his best, what else is there?" \n- General George S. Patton (1885-1945) \n\n"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." \n- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) \n\n"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." \n- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) \n\n"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." \n- Saint Augustine (354-430) \n\n"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." \n- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) \n\n"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." \n- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) \n\n"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." \n- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) \n\n"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." \n- Galileo Galilei \n\n"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." \n- Emile Zola (1840-1902) \n\n"This book fills a much-needed gap." \n- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review \n\n"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." \n- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) \n\n"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." \n- e e cummings (1894-1962) \n\n"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." \n- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) \n\n"Assassins!" \n- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra \n\n"I'll moider da bum." \n- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare \n\n"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." \n- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut \n\n"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." \n- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) \n\n"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." \n- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" \n\n"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." \n- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) \n\n"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." \n- Henry Ford (1863-1947) \n\n"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." \n- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') \n\n"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." \n- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) \n\n"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." \n- George Burns (1896-1996)\n\n\n"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." \n- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)\n\n\n"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." \n- Edsgar Dijkstra\n\n\n"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." \n- Bjarne Stroustrup\n\n\n"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." \n- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)\n\n\n"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting b
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Yes, as long as your are agreeing with the government.\n\nIt is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.\n-- Voltaire
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"Friends! Help! A Guinea pig tricked me!"\n-Dr. John Zoidberg
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"You must do the things you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt\n\n"Life is hard. After all, it kills you." Katharine Hepburn\n\n"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Desperate Housewives
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Have you ever considered that violence is not the answer to everything that upsets you?\n\n"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent"\n\nIsaac Asminov
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Jean-Baptiste,\n\nimagine le foin que ça ferait s'il venait à être sacré "meilleur buteur" !\n\nOn dirait que çà, c'est un miracle ....\n...   ... il y aurait des milliers de conversions, \nPas mal du tout ton idée ...\n\nAutre possibilité !\n\nimagine qu'il joue comme gardien de but, mais en soutane .( rien dans le réglement ne l'interdit, tu peux vérifier ...)\n\nTu vois l'avantage ?  Déjà il n'encaisserait pas de buts avec des ballons qui lui glisseraient entre les jambes ...\n...   ...  le foin que ça ferait ?\n\nJ'adore délirer,  mais toi aussi apparamment ...\n\namicalement.
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“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too” \n Voltaire\n\n“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward” \n Patricia Sampson\n \n“I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own” \n Chicbonvivant Michel de Montaigne