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More Quotes by Voltaire
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
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.
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.
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
