Thomas PaineBelief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ✨ Thomas Paine (2016). THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deist… ▶371LifeSadnessTruth
Thomas PaineWhat is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged t… ▶371Hope
Thomas PaineThe mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a con… ▶361PhilosophyReadingSadness
Thomas PaineIt is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe… ▶352Hope
Thomas PaineMy country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ✨ The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792)341Truth
Thomas PaineHe who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. ✨ Thomas Paine (2016). THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutiona… ▶363DeathHumanityLife
Thomas PaineHe is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. <… ▶352DeathLoveTruth
Thomas PaineWhen a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other cri… ▶352SadnessThought
Thomas PaineSmall islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be pe… ▶363LifePoliticsSadness
Thomas PaineWhat we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be stran… ▶374Time
Thomas PaineSociety is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vi… ▶374HumanityLovePolitics
Thomas PaineThe more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. ✨ Thomas Paine (2003). Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine, p.71, Pe… ▶341Sadness
Thomas PaineOf more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. ✨ Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). Citizen Paine: T… ▶352HumanityPoliticsSadness
Thomas PainePublic money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is dr… ▶374Reflection
Thomas PaineIn Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.342Reflection
Thomas PaineBeware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. ✨ Rights of Man, Part 2. Book by Thomas Paine. Introduction, en.wikisource.o… ▶364PoliticsReadingSadness
Thomas PaineHe, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach. ✨ Thomas Paine (2016). THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Whic… ▶331HumanityLifeSadness
Thomas PaineAll 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 pow… ▶342HumanityPoliticsSadness
Thomas PaineIt is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense … ▶331HumanityPoliticsSadness
Thomas PaineAll the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. ✨ Thomas Paine (1835). The Theological… ▶342Sadness
Thomas PaineIn a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree. ✨ Thomas Pa… ▶375LoveSadness
Thomas PainePriests and conjurors are of the same trade. ✨ Thomas Paine (2013). The Thomas Paine Reader, p.551, Simon and Schuster342ReadingSadness
Thomas PaineGovernment is a necessary evil353Politics
Thomas PaineThe Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ✨ Thomas Paine (2015). The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical… ▶342ReadingSadness
Thomas PaineThe greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.343Reading
Thomas PaineAnd as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you h… ▶321LifePoliticsSadness
Thomas PaineAccustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance. ✨ Thomas Paine (2016). THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revol… ▶321HumanityLifeSadness
Thomas PaineIt is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that … ▶343PoliticsSadnessTime
Thomas PaineThese are the days that try man's heart.321Love
Thomas PaineI 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 k… ▶365SadnessThought
