Voltaire Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

  Voltaire

  Children, Heart, Religion

• Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

  Voltaire

  Children, Monsters, Fanaticism

• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

  Voltaire

  Dad, Children, Father

• "I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

  Voltaire

  Children, Evil, Boredom

  Voltaire (2017). “Candide (Français Anglais édition illustré): Candide (French English Edition illustrated)”, p.229, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?

  Voltaire

  Christian, Brother, Art

  Voltaire (1976). “Candide”, p.119, Lulu.com

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