More Quotes by Voltaire
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Dare to think for yourself.
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
