Quotes by Voltaire

Voltaire

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"As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire

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"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men"

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"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do"

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"History is a lie agreed upon."

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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one."