If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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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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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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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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Let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation.
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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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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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