Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?

The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.