Quotes from Voltaire

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

God created women only to tame men.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Heaven made virtue; man, the appearance.

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.

Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

When it is a question of money everybody is of the same religion.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.