More From Thomas Paine
- "There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice."
- "Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."
- "It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes."
More In Freedom
- "Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."― Nelson Mandela
- "In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."― Peter Ustinov
- "Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."― Arthur Erickson