Томас Пейн цитаты страница 6

„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.“

Без источников

„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.“

Без источников

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

“The world has seen this folly fall, and it has fallen by being laughed at, and the farce of titles will follow its fate. The patriots of France have discovered in good time that rank and dignity in society must take a new ground. The old one has fallen through. It must now take the substantial ground of character, instead of the chimerical ground of titles; and they have brought their titles to the altar, and made of them a burnt-offering to Reason.”

Томас Пейн: Цитаты на английском языке

“The Theophilanthropists believe in the existence of God, and the immortality of the soul.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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

“The word of God is the creation we behold and it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.”

1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

“What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

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

“Giving then to matter all the properties which philosophy knows it has, or all that atheism ascribes to it, and can prove, and even supposing matter to be eternal, it will not account for the system of the universe or of the solar system, because it will not account for motion, and it is motion that preserves it. When, therefore, we discover a circumstance of such immense importance, that without it the universe could not exist, and for which neither matter, nor any, nor all, the properties of matter can account, we are by necessity forced into the rational and comfortable belief of the existence of a cause superior to matter, and that cause man calls, God.”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

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

“There are, in every country, some magnificent charities established by individuals. It is, however, but little that any individual can do, when the whole extent of the misery to be relieved is considered. He may satisfy his conscience, but not his heart. He may give all that he has, and that all will relieve but little. It is only by organizing civilization upon such principles as to act like a system of pulleys, that the whole weight of misery can be removed.”

1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”

1790s, Agrarian Justice (1797)

“Certainly one may, with as much reason and decency, plead for murder, robbery, lewdness, and barbarity, as for this practice: They are not more contrary to the natural dictates of Conscience, and feelings of Humanity; nay, they are all comprehended in it.”

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

“I […] could not avoid reflecting how wretched was the condition of a disrespected man.”

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“The election that followed, was not a contested election, but an animated one. The candidates were not men, but principles. Societies were formed in Paris, and committees of correspondence and communication established throughout the nation, for the purpose of enlightening the people, and explaining to them the principles of civil government; and so orderly was the election conducted, that it did not give rise even to the rumor of tumult.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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

“If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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

“The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

Part 2.2 Introduction
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

“As much in vain, perhaps, will they search ancient history for examples of the modern Slave-Trade. Too many nations enslaved the prisoners they took in war. But to go to nations with whom there is no war, who have no way provoked, without farther design of conquest, purely to catch inoffensive people, like wild beasts, for slaves, is an hight of outrage against Humanity and Justice, that seems left by Heathen nations to be practised by pretended Christians. How shameful are all attempts to colour and excuse it!”

Thomas Paine книга Век разума

Источник: 1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794), Chapter XII

“Titles are but nick-names, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it. It reduces man into the diminutive of man in things which are great, and the counterfeit of women in things which are little. It talks about its fine blue ribbon like a girl, and shows its new garter like a child. A certain writer, of some antiquity, says: "When I was a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things."”

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“Let me have none of your Popish stuff! Get away with you, good morning.”

Thomas Paine книга Rights of Man

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

“When the qualification to vote is regulated by years, it is placed on the firmest possible ground, because the qualification is such as nothing but dying before the time can take away; and the equality of Rights, as a principle, is recognized in the act of regulating the exercise. But when Rights are placed upon, or made dependent upon property, they are on the most precarious of all tenures. "Riches make themselves wings, and fly away," and the rights fly with them; and thus they become lost to the man when they would be of most value.”

Last words (June 1809), as quoted in The Fortnightly https://books.google.com/books?id=aCYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA398&lpg=PA398&dq=%22Let+me+have+none+of+your+Popish+stuff%22&source=bl&ots=D0WFax-dxc&sig=Ai90qOuOHYdsoVtR1tIIP_pwgUM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiii9momsrLAhWlmoMKHVxUBS0Q6AEIJDAE#v=onepage&q=%22Let%20me%20have%20none%20of%20your%20Popish%20stuff%22&f=false, Volume 25; Volume 31, p. 398 <br class="br">1800s

“Our Traders in MEN (an unnatural commodity!) must know the wickedness of that SLAVE-TRADE, if they attend to reasoning, or the dictates of their own hearts; and such as shun and stiffle all these, wilfully sacrifice Conscience, and the character of integrity to that golden Idol.”

1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)

“Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.”

1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)