If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREBehind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
More Voltaire Quotes
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
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Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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