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More Quotes by Voltaire
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
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.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
