The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
- Thomas Paine
More Quotes By Thomas Paine
- The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs...
- Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most...
- The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself,...
- He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a...
- Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for...
- The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering...
- The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
- When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
- The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
- Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be...
- There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection...
- [A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They...
- Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had...
- All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions,...
- Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are...
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