David Hume Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

  David Hume

  Enemy, Age, Liberty

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Parties of Great Britain' (1741-2)

• Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

  David Hume

  Enemy, Religion, Atheism

  David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.48

• I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

  David Hume

  Christian, Enemy, Subjects

  "Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III". Book by Baron Henry Brougham, 1845.

• In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs must have been founded on fixed reasons of interest and ambition. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded; and, by an infallible connexion, which prevails among all kinds of liberty, this privilege can never be enjoyed, at least has never yet been enjoyed, but in a free government.

  David Hume

  Ambition, Thinking, Government

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.50, VM eBooks

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