Томас Пейн цитаты страница 5

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

Без источников

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

Без источников

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

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

Без источников

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

Без источников

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

Без источников

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

Без источников

„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.“

Без источников

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

Без источников

„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.“

Без источников

„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.“

Без источников

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

Без источников

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

Без источников

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

Без источников

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

Ошибочно приписываемые

“All 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 power and profit.”

Томас Пейн: Цитаты на английском языке

“It will always happen when a thing is originally wrong that amendments do not make it right, and it oftens happens that they do as much mischief one way as good the other…”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

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

“But when the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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

“It is of the utmost danger to society to make it (religion) a party in political disputes.”

The Crisis No. VII
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

“Thomas did not believe the resurrection; and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I; and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.”

1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“[T]he remedy of force can never supply the remedy of reason.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

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

“Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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

“But where, say some, is the King of America? I'll tell you, friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Great Britain… so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king.”

1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.”

1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“The plea is, in a great measure, false; they had no permission to catch and enslave people who never injured them.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

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

“Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.”

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“If the slavery of the parents be unjust, much more is their children's; if the parents were justly slaves, yet the children are born free; this is the natural, perfect right of all mankind; they are nothing but a just recompense to those who bring them up: And as much less is commonly spent on them than others, they have a right, in justice, to be proportionably sooner free.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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

“The doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay; and as this pecuniary idea corresponds again with the system of second redemption, obtained through the means of money given to the Church for pardons, the probability is that the same persons fabricated both the one and the other of those theories; and that, in truth there is no such thing as redemption — that it is fabulous, and that man stands in the same relative condition with his Maker as he ever did stand since man existed, and that it is his greatest consolation to think so.”

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

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

“Such arguments ill become us, since the time of reformation came, under Gospel light. All distinctions of nations, and privileges of one above others, are ceased; Christians are taught to account all men their neighbours; and love their neighbours as themselves; and do to all men as they would be done by; to do good to all men; and Man-stealing is ranked with enormous crimes. Is the barbarous enslaving our inoffensive neighbours, and treating them like wild beasts subdued by force, reconcilable with all these Divine precepts? Is this doing to them as we would desire they should do to us? If they could carry off and enslave some thousands of us, would we think it just?—One would almost wish they could for once; it might convince more than Reason, or the Bible.”

1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“It is the duty of every man, so far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.”

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“[A]ristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.”

The Theophilanthropist: Containing Critical, Moral, Theological and Literary Essays, in Monthly Numbers https://books.google.com/books?id=XasOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA387&lpg=PA387, p. 387 <br class="br">1800s

“So monstrous is the making and keeping them slaves at all, abstracted from the barbarous usage they suffer, and the many evils attending the practice; as selling husbands away from wives, children from parents, and from each other, in violation of sacred and natural ties; and opening the way for adulteries, incests, and many shocking consequences, for all of which the guilty Masters must answer to the final Judge.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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

“I have lived an honest and useful life to mankind; my time has been spend in doing good and I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.”

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“They show as little Reason as Conscience who put the matter by with saying—"Men, in some cases, are lawfully made Slaves, and why may not these?" So men, in some cases, are lawfully put to death, deprived of their goods, without their consent; may any man, therefore, be treated so, without any conviction of desert? Nor is this plea mended by adding—"They are set forth to us as slaves, and we buy them without farther inquiry, let the sellers see to it." Such men may as well join with a known band of robbers, buy their ill-got goods, and help on the trade; ignorance is no more pleadable in one case than the other; the sellers plainly own how they obtain them. But none can lawfully buy without evidence that they are not concurring with Men-Stealers; and as the true owner has a right to reclaim his goods that were stolen, and sold; so the slave, who is proper owner of his freedom, has a right to reclaim it, however often sold.”

Last will (1809), as quoted in The Fortnightly Review https://books.google.com/books?id=PtlBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA398&lpg=PA398&dq=%22Let+me+have+none+of+your+Popish+stuff%22&source=bl&ots=XKTgMyyfOF&sig=N-KTteQDfZyKQaQA0yyMGyHkBvU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBhM3xmcrLAhXonIMKHSBLCcoQ6AEIIjAD#v=onepage&q=%22Let%20me%20have%20none%20of%20your%20Popish%20stuff%22&f=false, Volume 31, pp. 398&ndash;399 <br class="br">1800s

“Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.”

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“It is a want of feeling to talk of priests and bells while so many infants are perishing in the hospitals, and aged and infirm poor in the streets, from the want of necessaries.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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