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Thomas Paine Quotes
«From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
beginnings, continual, expected, extortion, governments, system
«A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Habit,
Thinking
| Keywords:
appearance, at first, converts, custom, defense, first appearance, formidable, outcry, raises, subside, subsides, subsiding, superficial, tumult, tumults
«Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, consistent, corrupt, corrupting, cruel, debaucheries, debauchery, demon, executions, filled, History of, obscene, served, stories, The Demon, torturous, unrelenting, vindictiveness, voluptuous, wickedness, Word of God
«Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.»
«All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe»
«Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Moderation,
Virtue
| Keywords:
in principle, moderation, temper, vice
«To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, advantageous, branches, establish, lucrative, mode, nations
«Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were [the law-abiding] deprived of the use of them.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abiding, awe, deprived, deprived of, discourage, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, horrid, invader, Invaders, law-abiding, mischief, plunderer, plunderers, preserve