A Quote by Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Voltaire

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

Voltaire

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: "Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities."

Martin Gardner

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

Richard Dawkins

Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."

Herbert J. Muller

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

Voltaire

It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

Oliver North

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Voltaire

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?

Robert D. Kaplan

The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.

Seishiro Itagaki

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

Wallace Shawn

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.