“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”

“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”