No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VOLTAIRETo hold a pen is to be at war.
More Voltaire Quotes
-
-
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
VOLTAIRE -
Perfect is the enemy of good.
VOLTAIRE -
May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIRE -
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
VOLTAIRE -
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
VOLTAIRE -
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIRE -
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
VOLTAIRE -
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
VOLTAIRE -
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
VOLTAIRE -
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
VOLTAIRE -
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
VOLTAIRE -
Minds differ still more than faces.
VOLTAIRE -
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VOLTAIRE -
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VOLTAIRE -
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VOLTAIRE