I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe may turn the public mind which way we will.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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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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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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