History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
VoltaireThe monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
VoltaireI never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.
Voltaire