Quotes from Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Change everything except your loves.

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.

History is fables agreed upon.

History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.

Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.