We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place,...

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

Hıristiyan inanç sistemi bana bir tür ateizm olarak görünmektedir; Tanrı’nın bir tür dinsel ink rı. Tanrı’dan çok bir adama inanmayla kendini ifade etmektedir. Ana maddesi insana inanmak, yardımcı maddesi olağanüstü bir varlığa inanmak olan bu...

When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, Joseph, said that...

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept...

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we...

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions...

It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various...

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching...

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Hıristiyan kilisesi adı verilen kuramın pagan mitolojisinin kuyruğuna takılıp yeşerdiğini gözlemlemek ilgi çekicidir.

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue...

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Gerçek din bilimsel bilgimizin kaynağıdır; bu bilgiden de tüm sanatlar türemiştir.

Evrensel inançları yetkin bir biçimde meydan okuyan antik kitaplardan biri Eukleides’in Geometri’nin Temelleri kitabıdır; kitap, yazarından bağımsız olarak zaman, mek n ve koşullara bağlı her şeyin açıkça tanımlanabileceğinin bizzat kanıtıdır. Kitapta yer alan konuların tümü...

Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable creation, yet it is so worked up therewith, from what is called...

If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made up as it is of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms...

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on the world as a mass of truth, and as the word...

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes...

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that...

Günümüzde var olan tüm bilimsel bilgi bize ya Eski Yunanlılardan ya da Eski Yunanca konuşan topluluklardan gelmiştir. Bu nedenle, başka ulusların Yunanlıların sahip olduğu bilgiyi edinebilmesi için bu uluslardan bazı kişilerin Yunanca öğrenmesi ve Yunanca...

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it...

That government is best which governs least.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Tüm dini kurumlar, vahiy veya Tanrı kelamı adını verdikleri kutsal kitaplara sahiptir. Yahudiler, Tanrı Kelamları’nın Musa’ya Tanrı tarafından yüz yüze iletildiğini; Hıristiyanlar kendi Tanrı Kelamları’nın kutsal esinlenme yoluyla; Müslümanlar da Tanrı Kelamları’nın (Kuran) cennetten gelen...

Mutluluktan mahrum ettiğimiz bir topluluktan mutluluk beklemek imkansızdır.

The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books ascribed to Mark, and John; and is differently related in Matthew and Luke....

The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of...

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Her insan kendisini yaratanın kendisi olmadığının bir kanıtıdır; ne babası, ne dedesi ne de ataları kendilerini yaratmışlardır; ne ağaç, ne bitki ne de hayvanlar kendi kendilerini yaratmıştır; tüm bu kanıtlara bakarak sonsuzlukta var olan ilk...

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange...

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.