Quotes from Voltaire

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.

the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

If God made us in his image we have certainly returned the compliment.

The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong