August 4, 2012
"Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with."

— Christopher Hitchens

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July 15, 2012
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

— Voltaire

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(Notes: 9)
  
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February 3, 2012
"Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with."

— Christopher Hitchens

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(Notes: 15)
  
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January 13, 2012
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."

— Voltaire

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(Notes: 137)
  
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November 25, 2010
"

“Truly, that which makes me believe there is no inhabitant on this sphere, is that it seems to me that no sensible being would be willing to live here.”

“Well then!” said Micromegas, “perhaps the beings that inhabit it do not possess good sense.”

— One alien to another, on approaching the Earth in VOLTAIRE’s Micromegas: A Philisophical History

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November 14, 2010
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
— Voltaire"

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November 3, 2010
"Men will cease to commit atrocities only when they cease to believe absurdities.
— Voltaire"

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