A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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