151 ordspråk av Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine föddes den
29 januari 1737 och dog den 8 juni
1809 - and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection
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The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance
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The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion
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The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion
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The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached
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The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
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The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice
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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord
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