Quotes from Thomas Paine

the so much boasted constitution of England...is imperfect, subject to convulsions, and incapable of producing what it seems to promise...

There may be many systems of religion that so far from being morally bad are in many respects morally good: but there can be but ONE that is true; and that one necessarily must, as it ever will, be in all things consistent with the ever existing word of God that we behold in his works. But such is the strange construction of the christian system of faith, that every evidence the heavens affords to man, either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. It

Yalan söylemek kolayd?r ama devam ettirmek zordur.

Of more worth is one honeset man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Tüm kâinat? düzenleyen ve yöneten ilkeler gibi her bilimin de sabit ve deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez ilkeleri vard?r. Ä°nsan bu ilkeleri yapamaz ancak onlar? keÅŸfedebilir.

we are never in a proper condition of doing justice to others, while we continue under the influence of some leading partiality, so neither are we capable of doing it to ourselves while we remain fettered by any obstinate prejudice. And

The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.

I shall neither copy their humility, nor disturb their devotion.

PUTTING aside everything that might excite laughter by its absurdity, or detestation by its profaneness, and confining ourselves merely to an examination of the parts, it is impossible to conceive a story more derogatory to the Almighty, more inconsistent with his wisdom, more contradictory to his power, than this story is.

Toho, co snadno získáme, si pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ nevážíme. Pouze to, o co musíme usilovat, má skute?nou hodnotu.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind!

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals; but, however unwilling the partisans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true that the age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the word of God. The word of God exists in something else.

a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong,gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and

for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

The belief that every human soul was the child of God, and capable of direct inspiration from the Father of all, without mediator or priestly intervention, or sacramental instrumentality, was fatal to all privilege and rank.

Put us, say some, on the footing we were on in sixty-three: To which I answer, the

How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust.

it is the pride of kings which throw mankind into confusion.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. freedom and security. And however our eyes may be dazzled with snow, or our ears deceived by sound; however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our understanding, the simple voice of nature and of reason will say, it is right.

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.