Quotes Tagged With :voltaire

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible....

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they....

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there....

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest,....

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world.....

You are very harsh.''I have seen the world.

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would....

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached....