The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
ADAM WEISHAUPTI am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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The priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
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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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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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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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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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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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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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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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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest.
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