But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
ADAM WEISHAUPTOh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
More Adam Weishaupt Quotes
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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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For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.
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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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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose
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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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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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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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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry
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The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment.
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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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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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We may turn the public mind which way we will.
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I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome.
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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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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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices
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