The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
THOMAS PAINEAll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
More Thomas Paine Quotes
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
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Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
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All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.
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The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.
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