A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
ADAM WEISHAUPTAnd they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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We must win the common people in every corner.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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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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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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