More From Voltaire
- "The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
- "The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
- "The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
More In Religion
- "There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."― Polly Toynbee
- "Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building."― Bono
- "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."― C. S. Lewis