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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

More Voltaire quotes
"In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")
"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc
"S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)
"Injustice in the end produces independence.
"People will continue to commit atrocities as long as they believe in absurdities.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)
"I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my secret heart I too felt a void where my childhood fa...
"Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.