More Quotes by Voltaire
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
