There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
ADAM WEISHAUPTMy general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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My explanation is accurate and complete, my means are effectual, and irresistable.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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