Quotes About Candide

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Candide by Voltaire

Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.

Gibbon's breathtaking chapter on early Christianity (volume I, chapter 15 of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) or in Candide, Voltaire's devastating mockery of Leibniz's claim that 'all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds'.m

It occurred to him as a passing thought that all was for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

In this best of all possible worlds… everything is for the best.