Adam Weishaupt Quotes - Page 2

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• Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest. The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Strong, Lying, Men

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• A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Order, Stranger, States

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• Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Jealous, Purpose, Noble

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• I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Rome, World, Proud

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• In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Order, Should Have, Situation

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• But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Religious, Sleep, Political

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• My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Details, May, Faults

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• The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Men, Opposites, Tenors

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