The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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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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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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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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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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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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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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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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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
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Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.
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I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States.
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