Zitate von Thomas Paine
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Jedes Zeitalter und jede Generation muß auf jeden Fall Freiheit haben, für sich zu handeln, ebenso wie sie frühere Zeitalter und Generationen besaßen. Die über das Grab hinausreichende Anmaßung und Eitelkeit sind die lächerlichste und unverschämteste Tyrannei. Der Mensch hat am Menschen kein Eigentumsrecht, noch hat eine Generation ein Eigentumsrecht an den nachfolgenden Generationen.
Informationen über Thomas Paine
Politiker, Schriftsteller, Unterstützer der Französischen Revolution (England/USA, 1737 - 1809).
Thomas Paine · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Thomas Paine wäre heute 287 Jahre, 3 Monate, 6 Tage oder 104.921 Tage alt.
Geboren am 29.01.1737 in Thetford/Norfolk/England
Gestorben am 08.06.1809 in New York
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann
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Weitere 68 Zitate von Thomas Paine
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[In France] All that class of equivocal generation, which in some countries is called aristocracy, and in others nobility, is done away, and the peer is exalted into man.
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A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.
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All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny . . . To inherit a government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds.
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Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system.
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As he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
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As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.
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Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
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Facts are more powerful than arguments.
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
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I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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It 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 what one does not believe.
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Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
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Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this . . . Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm . . . The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity . . . Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.
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One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
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Persecution is not an original feature of any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all law-religions, or religions established by law.
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