Voltaire Quotes About Revolution
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.
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Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
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Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.
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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.
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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
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