I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThis 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.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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Illuminate the opposition.
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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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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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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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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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