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More Quotes by Voltaire
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.
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.
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.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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.
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.