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#1

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

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#2

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
― Voltaire

tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life

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#3

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

tags: absurdities, atheism, atrocities, barbarity, injustice, religion, skepticism

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#4

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
― Voltaire

tags: god, voltaire

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#5

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy

1066 likes

#6

“The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.”
― Karl Kraus

tags: life, prison, solitude

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#7

“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”
― Karl Kraus

tags: devil, people

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#8

“In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.”
― Karl Kraus

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#9

“Once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.”
― Sophocles, Philoctetes

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#10

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: attributed-no-source

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