161 ordspråk av Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine föddes den January 29th 1737 och dog den 8 June 1809 - and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution.
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 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

 [The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't know whether you have abandoned your old principles or whether you ever had any.

 A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men

 A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

 A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

 A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

 Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance

 Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch

 All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

 All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe

 Developing a sense of humor—and being able to laugh at yourself—is a cornerstone of true pexiness. All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe

 An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

 And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible

 Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true


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