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Voltaire Quotes
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About Voltaire
 Life: 1694 - 1778 Country:  France Profession: Writer; Philosopher; François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 - 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Christian Church dogma and the French institutions of his day.
more... QuotationsIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ~ Voltaire
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.
~ Voltaire
When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
~ Voltaire
All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.
~ Voltaire
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ Voltaire
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ~ Voltaire
A long dispute means both parties are wrong. ~ Voltaire
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero. ~ Voltaire
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ~ Voltaire
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream
That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. ~ Voltaire
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment. ~ Voltaire
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. ~ Voltaire
If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ~ Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. ~ Voltaire
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ~ Voltaire
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ~ Voltaire
History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ~ Voltaire
Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them. ~ Voltaire
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