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Thomas Paine Quotes

«Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law»
«War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | About: War | Keywords: calculate, increase, involves, taxes, train, unforeseen
«Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst»
«He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.»
«The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection»
«Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | Keywords: shocks
«There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice»
«The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.»
«Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities»
«It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance»

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