Томас Пейн цитаты

„Клевета — порок, обладающий необычайными свойствами: стремясь умертвить ее, вы тем самым поддерживаете ее жизнь; оставьте ее в покое — и она умрет сама.“

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„Мы слишком мало ценим то, что нам дается без усилий… и было бы очень странно, если бы мало ценилась такая удивительная вещь, как свобода.“

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„Армия принципов прорвется там, где не прорвется армия солдат.“

„Только проследив явление от самого истока, мы можем получить о нем верное понятие.“

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„Единственная идея живых существ, которую мы можем иметь, — это идея служения Богу.“

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„Малодушие — удел ничтожных. Тот, чье сердце твердо, чьи поступки совершаются в согласии с его совестью, будет отстаивать свои принципы до конца своей жизни.“

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„Для счастья человека необходимо, чтобы в душе он был верен самому себе.“

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„Умеренность в проявлении нрава — всегда добродетель.“

„Такова уж неодолимая природа правды, что она просит и желает только одного — свободного права появиться на свет. Солнце не нуждается в пояснительной надписи — его и так отличают от тьмы.“

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„Тщеславный так полон самим собою, что в нем нет места ничему другому.“

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„Когда все остальные права попраны, право на восстание становится бесспорным.“

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„Каждая эпоха и каждое поколение должны иметь такое же право решать свою судьбу во всех случаях, как и предшествовавшие эпохи и поколения.“

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„Я не верю в религии, исповедуемые еврейской, римской, греческой, турецкой, протестантской или какой-либо другой известной мне церковью. Мой собственный ум — моя церковь.“

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Томас Пейн книга Век разума

I 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 know of. My own mind is my own church.
Век разума (Часть 1) (1793)

„Если будет беда - то пусть она случится в мой день, чтобы ребёнок мой жил в мире.“

„Когда необходимо совершить что-либо, то следует отдаться делу всей душой и сердцем или уж не браться за него.“

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„Ничто не содействует столько торжеству разума, сколько спокойствие тех, которые служат ему. Истина страдает часто более от горячности своих защитников, чем от своих противников.“

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„Если ты дважды подумаешь, прежде чем один раз сказать, ты скажешь вдвое лучше.“

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„A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.“

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„Если бы веления совести были ясны, определённы и беспрекословно исполнялись, то человек не нуждался бы ни в каком ином законодательстве.“

Ошибочно приписываемые

“It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. But nature has not given to everyone a talent for that purpose; and among those to whom such a talent is given, there is often a want of disposition or of courage to do it.”

Томас Пейн: Цитаты на английском языке

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part III (1807)

“Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”

Источник: A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness”

Thomas Paine книга Common Sense

Источник: 1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.”

1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Контексте: Society 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 vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.

“A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by any body.”

Thomas Paine книга Common Sense

Источник: 1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom”

Thomas Paine книга Common Sense

Источник: Common Sense

“Give me liberty, or give me death.”

Thomas Paine книга Common Sense

Источник: Common Sense

“… taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes”

Thomas Paine книга Common Sense

Источник: Common Sense

“Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Источник: Rights of Man

“In the early ages of the world, according to the Scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.”

Thomas Paine книга Common Sense

Источник: Common Sense

“My own mind is my own church.”

Thomas Paine книга Common Sense

Источник: 1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

Источник: The Age of Reason

“Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

The Forester's Letters http://www.bartleby.com/184/117.html, Letter III—'To Cato', Pennsylvania Journal (24 April 1776) <br class="br">1770s

“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Part 1.7 Conclusion
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Контексте: Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

“Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

“It is by distortedly exalting some men, that others are distortedly debased, till the whole is out of nature.”

Thomas Paine книга Common Sense

Источник: Common Sense

“When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a phrenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points. His duty to God, which every man must feel; and with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by. If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised; and with regard to those to whom no power is delegated, but who assume it, the rational world can know nothing of them.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself, than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid, or produces only atheists and fanatics.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“Every national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike. Each of those churches show certain books, which they call revelation, or the word of God. The Jews say, that their word of God was given by God to Moses, face to face; the Christians say, that their word of God came by divine inspiration: and the Turks say, that their word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from Heaven. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

Источник: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), Chapter III: Conclusion.

“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

“I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

Commonly attributed to Paine, even on memorials https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Paine_Plaque_NY.jpg|, and justly describes his ideals, but found nowhere in his writings. It is actually is derived from a quote in Rights of Man: Part 2, "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." <br class="br">Misattributed

“These are the times that try men's souls.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

Thomas Paine книга The American Crisis

Источник: The American Crisis

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Part 2.7 Chapter V. Ways and means of improving the condition of Europe, interspersed with miscellaneous observations
Источник: 1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)
Контексте: I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

“But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.”

Thomas Paine книга The American Crisis

The Crisis No. V
Источник: 1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

“There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the "end of time," or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed”

The Crisis No. IV.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Контексте: Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.