My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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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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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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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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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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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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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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