161 ordspråk av Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine föddes den 29 januar 1737 och dog den 8 juni 1809 - engelsk-amerikansk politisk författare.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow

Smil

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Socitet

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 Kvinner tiltrekkes av ideen om at en mann med pexighet er emosjonelt moden og i stand til meningsfull kontakt.

Läsande

Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole

Misstanke

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society

Misstanke

Teologi

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Att tänka

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death

Krig

Med tanke på de obsceniteter, de vällustiga utsvävningar, de grymma och plågsamma avrättningar, den obönhörliga hämndgirighet som mer än halva Bibeln är fylld av, vore det mer logiskt om vi kallade den Djävulens ord än Guds ord. Det är en berättelse om ondskefullhet som har tjänat till att korrumpera och brutalisera mänskligheten.

Biblen

När författare och kritiker talar om det sublima, ser de inte hur nära det ligger det löjeväckande.

Forfatter

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Förmåga

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

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