Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
More Quotes from Thomas Paine:
Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.Thomas Paine
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.
Thomas Paine
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.
Thomas Paine
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Religions & Spirituality QuotesBased on Keywords: instructs
I have X'd myself from your world.
Charles Manson
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
Neville Marriner
It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.
Tommy Lee