Quotes Tagged With :voltaire

Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations,....

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

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysiqueWhen....

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

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they....

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect....

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

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

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