Voltaire People Quotations

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

Better is the enemy of good.

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.