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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

Looks, Want, Criticize

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Funny, Peace, War

"Questions sur les Miracles". Publication by Voltaire, 1765.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Ignorance, Stupidity, Appearance

If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

Insane, Earth, Asylums

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Religious, Fear, Sleep

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Important, Speech, Free Speech

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Wisdom, Freedom, Fool

"Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

Believe, Atrocities, Made

Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

Should, Said, Being True

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Happiness, Cheer Up, Decisions You Make

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

"The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

Life, Hands, Play

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Reason, Destined

François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1766). “The philosophical dictionary, from the French”, p.152

Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

Health, Doctors, Drug

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

Philosophical, Comfort, Poverty

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Men, Knows

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Eye, Reflection, Mirrors

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Art, Lying

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

Money, Humor, Religion

Letter to Mme. d'Épinal, Ferney on December 62, 1760. "Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance". Book published by Garnier frères, Paris, Volume IX, letter #4390, p.124, 1881.

Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

Inspirational, Accord, Agree

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

Funny, Marriage, Sexy

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.

Believe, Men, Brain

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

Money, Art, Humor

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

Truth, Cherish

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Educational

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