Frases de Thomas Paine (300 citações, página 9)

Thomas Paine: 300 citações52 Curtidas

Thomas Paine Frases famosas

“Discutir com um homem que renunciou à sua razão é como medicar um cadáver.”

“O governo, mesmo quando perfeito, não passa de um mal necessário; quando imperfeito, é um mal insuportável.”

“O facto de continuarmos a pensar que uma determinada coisa não é errada dá-nos uma aparência superficial de estarmos certos.”

Thomas Paine

Variante: O fato de continuarmos a pensar que uma determinada coisa não é errada dá-nos uma aparência superficial de estarmos certos.

“O mundo é o meu país, toda a humanidade são meus irmãos, e fazer o bem é a minha religião.”

Thomas Paine livro The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine in: The Age of Reason, III, 1794
Variante: O mundo é meu país, os humanos são meus irmãos e fazer o bem é minha religião.

“Manter o caráter é bem mais fácil do que recuperá-lo.”

Thomas Paine livro The American Crisis

Character is much easier kept than recovered The American crisis‎ - Página 142 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=vDq6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA142, Thomas Paine - J. Watson, 1835 - 145 páginas

“Quem quer garantir a própria liberdade, deve preservar da opressão até o inimigo; pois, se fugir a esse dever, estará a estabelecer um precedente que até a ele próprio há-de atingir.”

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Citações de homens de Thomas Paine

“Eu não acredito na crença professada pela igreja Judaica, pela igreja Romana, pela igreja Grega, pela igreja Turca, pela igreja Protestante, nem por nenhuma igreja que conheça. Minha própria mente é minha própria igreja. Todas as intituições de igrejas nacionais, seja Judia, Cristã, ou Turca, parecem-me como nada além do que uma invenção humana, feitas para aterrorizar e escravizar o homem, monopolizando poder e lucro.”

Thomas Paine

A Era da Razão

“A crença num Deus cruel faz o homem cruel.”

Thomas Paine

“Embora a avareza impeça um homem de se tornar necessariamente pobre, geralmente torna-o demasiado timorato para enriquecer.”

Thomas Paine

“Para ser feliz um homem tem que ser fiel a si mesmo. A infidelidade não consiste em acreditar ou em não acreditar, consiste em professar aquilo em que não se acredita”

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Citações de mundo de Thomas Paine

“Temos o poder de começar o mundo de novo.”

Thomas Paine livro Common Sense (panfleto)

We have it in our power to begin the world over again Common Sense ...‎ - Página 61 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=wVt7VxvFyegC&pg=PA61, de Thomas Paine - Publicado por Forgotten Books, 1817 ISBN 1606209035, 9781606209035 - 56 páginas Senso Comum

“A minha pátria é o mundo, e a minha religião a prática do bem.”

Thomas Paine

my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. "Rights os Man" in: "The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine"‎ - Chap. V Página 79 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=a5YIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA79, de Thomas Paine, Paine - Publicado por R. Carlile, 1819

“Não fazer nada é o trabalho mais cansativo do mundo, pois você não pode se demitir e descansar!”

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Thomas Paine frases e citações

“O tempo faz mais convertidos do que a razão.”

Thomas Paine

Senso Comum

“Eu admiro aqueles que conseguem sorrir com os problemas, reunir forças na angústia, e ganhar coragem na reflexão. É coisa de pequenas mentes encolher-se, mas aquele cujo coração é firme, e cuja consciência aprova sua conduta, perseguirá seus princípios até a morte.”

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“A sociedade, em qualquer forma, é uma benção, mas o governo, mesmo em sua melhor forma, não é nada mais que um mal necessário; na sua pior forma, é intolerável.”

Thomas Paine livro Common Sense (panfleto)

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one "Common Sense" in: "The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine"‎ - Página 5 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=a5YIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA5, de Thomas Paine - Publicado por R. Carlile, 1819 Senso Comum

“O melhor governo é o que governa menos.”

Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least citação ora atribuída a Thomas Paine, ora a Thomas Jefferson; veja: "Correction Lines: Essays on Land, Leopold, and Conservation" - página 256 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=ueiFrjupXdUC&pg=PA256, nota 25, Por Curt Meine, Publicado por Island Press, 2004 ISBN 1559637323, 9781559637329 296 páginas Disputadas

“É muito mais fácil conservar o caráter do que recobrá-lo.”

Thomas Paine

“O princípio moral das revoluções é instruir, não destruir.”

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“Existem tempos em que as almas são testadas.”

Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls
The Crisis I, published December, 1776

“Sempre que lemos as histórias obscenas, os deboches voluptuosos, as execuções cruéis e torturantes, e o espírito implacável de vingança com os quais mais de metade da Bíblia está preenchida, seria mais consistente que a chamássemos de a palavra de um demônio, do que de a Palavra de Deus. Trata-se de uma história de maldade, que serviu para corromper e brutalizar a humanidade; e, de minha parte, eu sinceramente a detesto, assim como detesto tudo que é cruel.”

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A Era da Razão Fonte: The Age of Reason http://books.google.com.br/books?id=vZYIAAAAQAAJ&hl=pt-BR&pg=RA3-PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false (1793) Parte I, pág. 13 ISBN 0517091186.

“A Bíblia é o livro mais lido e o menos examinado que qualquer outro que já existiu.”

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“Aquele que não ousa ofender, não pode ser honesto.”

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“As leis de difícil execução em geral não podem ser boas.”

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“A sociedade é produto de nossos desejos, e o governo de nossas maldades”

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“Os títulos não passam de apelidos, e todos apelidos são títulos.”

Thomas Paine livro Rights of Man

Titles are but nick-names, and every nick-name is a title. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution‎ - Página 66 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=9FkJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA66, de Thomas Paine - Publicado por Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791 - 171 páginas

“Alguns escritores de tal modo confundiram sociedade e governo, que entre os dois deixaram pouca ou nenhuma distinção; entretanto, não só são diferentes como possuem origens diversas. A sociedade é produzida pelas nossas necessidades, e o governo, pela nossa maldade; a primeira promove 'positivamente' a nossa felicidade, unindo as nossas afeições, enquanto o segundo o faz 'negativamente', refreando os nossos vícios. A primeira encoraja o intercâmbio, o segundo cria distinções. A primeira é uma patrocinadora, o segundo, punitivo.”

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Senso Comum

“Minha mente é a minha igreja.”

Thomas Paine livro The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology

My mind is my own church
The Age of Reason‎ - Página 18, de Thomas Paine, Ernest Renan, Charles Bradlaugh - Publicado por Forgotten Books, 1884 ISBN 1606208535, 9781606208533 - 208 páginas
A Era da Razão

“É impossível calcular o dano moral, se é que posso chamá-lo assim, que a mentira mental tem causado na sociedade.”

Thomas Paine livro The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society "The Age of Reason" in: "The Political and Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Paine‎" - Página 4 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=vZYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA4, de Thomas Paine, Richard Carlile - Publicado por Printed and published by R. Carlile, 1819 A Era da Razão

“Estimamos pouco aquilo que obtemos com demasiada facilidade.”

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“Ao planearmos para a posteridade, deveríamos lembrar-nos de que a virtude não é hereditária.”

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“Um governo que precisa de juramentos não merece apoio, nem deve ser apoiado.”

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“Um bom professor vale mais que cem sacerdotes.”

Thomas Paine

“É a direcção e não a intensidade que deve ser levada em consideração.”

Thomas Paine

“O erro que começou há mil anos é tão errado como o que começa hoje, e o acerto que surge hoje é tão certo como se tivesse a sanção de séculos.”

Thomas Paine

“Fazer o bem é a minha religião.”

Thomas Paine

“Muitas vezes, o sublime e o ridículo encontram-se tão estreitamente relacionados, que é difícil classificá-los separadamente. Um passo além do sublime e cai-se no ridículo; um passo além do ridículo e chega-se ao sublime.”

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“O governo é somente necessário para suprir os poucos casos em que a sociedade e a civilização não são convenientemente competentes.”

Thomas Paine livro Common Sense (panfleto)

Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society and civilization are not conveniently competent. "Common Sense" in: "The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine" - Página 20 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=a5YIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false, de Thomas Paine - Publicado por R. Carlile, 1819 Senso Comum

Thomas Paine: Frases em inglês

“Magna Charta, as it was called… was no more compelling the government to renounce a part of its assumptions. It did not create and give powers to government in the manner a constitution does; but was, as far as it went, of the nature of a re-conquest, and not of a constitution; for could the nation have totally expelled the usurpation, as France has done its despotism, it would then have had a constitution to form.”

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Thomas Paine livro Rights of Man

Part Two, Chapter III
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

“A constitution is the property of a nation, and not of those who exercise the government. All the constitutions of America are declared to be established on the authority of the people. In France, the word nation is used istead of the people; but in both cases, a constitution is a thing antecedent to the government, and always distinct therefrom.”

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Thomas Paine livro Rights of Man

Part Two, Chapter III
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

“It lost ground from contempt more than from hatred; and was rather jeered at as an ass, than dreaded as a lion. This is the general character of aristocracy, or what are called Nobles or Nobility, or rather No-ability, in all countries.”

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Thomas Paine livro Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“It was not against Louis the XVIth, but against the despotic principles of the government, that the nation revolted. These principles had not their origin in him, but in the original establishment, many centuries back; and they were become too deeply rooted to be removed, and the augean stable of parasites and plunderers too abominably filthy to be cleansed, by any thing short of a complete and universal revolution.”

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Thomas Paine livro Rights of Man

Preface
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“The people of America had been bred up in the same prejudices against France, which at that time characterized the people of England; but experience and an acquaintance with the French Nation have most effectually shown to the American the falsehood of those prejudices; and I do not believe that a more cordial and confidential intercourse exists between any two countries than between America and France.”

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Thomas Paine livro Rights of Man

Preface
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“It was the cause of America that made me an author. The force with which it struck my mind and the dangerous condition the country appeared to me in, by courting an impossible and an unnatural reconciliation with those who were determined to reduce her, instead of striking out into the only line that could cement and save her, A Declaration Of Independence, made it impossible for me, feeling as I did, to be silent: and if, in the course of more than seven years, I have rendered her any service, I have likewise added something to the reputation of literature, by freely and disinterestedly employing it in the great cause of mankind, and showing that there may be genius without prostitution. Independence always appeared to me practicable and probable, provided the sentiment of the country could be formed and held to the object: and there is no instance in the world, where a people so extended, and wedded to former habits of thinking, and under such a variety of circumstances, were so instantly and effectually pervaded, by a turn in politics, as in the case of independence; and who supported their opinion, undiminished, through such a succession of good and ill fortune, till they crowned it with success. But as the scenes of war are closed, and every man preparing for home and happier times, I therefore take my leave of the subject. I have most sincerely followed it from beginning to end, and through all its turns and windings: and whatever country I may hereafter be in, I shall always feel an honest pride at the part I have taken and acted, and a gratitude to nature and providence for putting it in my power to be of some use to mankind.”

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The Crisis No. XIII
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

“I HAVE never met with a man, either in England or America, who hath not confessed his opinion, that a separation between the countries, would take place one time or other: And there is no instance, in which we have shewn less judgment, than in endeavouring to describe, what we call, the ripeness or fitness of the Continent for independance. As all men allow the measure, and vary only in their opinion of the time, let us, in order to remove mistakes, take a general survey of things, and endeavour, if possible, to find out the very time. But we need not go far, the inquiry ceases at once, for, the time hath found us. The general concurrence, the glorious union of all things prove the fact. It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world.”

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1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. Explanation: Paine explained the need to speak out against a tyrannical power, notably Britain and King George III, because not doing so could be a dangerous action on its own. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. This first part actually has two sections on its own. In the first half, Paine says it’s important to note the “wrongs” that occur when injustices are clear — not doing so gives them the “appearance of being right.” In the second half, he notes that people’s first reactions to those complaints are always to side on the side of “custom” — that is, to oppose attacks against institutions. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. Explanation: Most Americans are not in favor of impeachment at this moment. It’s a reaction against a guarded institution — and citizens are going to behave in ways that make it seem they’re against the idea, by giving a “defense of custom,” as Paine put it. It should be noted, however, that the same held true for a different president — Richard Nixon. At the onset of investigations, a majority of Americans felt it was a waste of time. As they learned more about his actions as president, the public (including a significant number of Republicans) became more supportive of his ouster. 1770s, Common Sense (1776) Fonte: Chris Walker (September 25, 2019): A Look Back At Thomas Paine, And Why Impeachment Makes ‘Common’ Sense (Even If You Think It’s A Losing Cause) [Opinion]. In: HillReporter.com. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20190929202745/https://hillreporter.com/a-look-back-paine-and-why-impeachment-makes-sense-even-if-you-think-its-a-losing-cause-opinion-46555 from the original https://hillreporter.com/a-look-back-paine-and-why-impeachment-makes-sense-even-if-you-think-its-a-losing-cause-opinion-46555 on September 29, 2019.

“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.”

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George S. Patton: "Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way", as quoted in Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes (2005) edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157
Misattributed

“If we take a survey of ages and of countries, we shall find the women, almost - without exception - at all times and in all places, adored and oppressed. Man, who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his power, in paying homage to their beauty, has always availed himself of their weakness He has been at once their tyrant and their slave.”

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Disputed, Women, Adored and Oppressed (1775)

“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself—that is my doctrine.”

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Robert Green Ingersoll: "...my religion is simply this: First. Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. Second..." in "The Limitations of Toleration" (The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, vol. 7, pp. 217-260, quotation on p. 258).
Misattributed

“It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.”

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Edward Abbey, "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." as written in "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness" (Vox Clamantis en Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal (1990), ISBN 0312064888.
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“As to riots and tumults, let those answer for them, who, by willful misrepresentations, endeavor to excite and promote them; or who seek to stun the sense of the nation, and to lose the great cause of public good in the outrages of a misinformed mob. We take our ground on principles that require no such riotous aid. We have nothing to apprehend from the poor; for we are pleading their cause. And we fear not proud oppression, for we have truth on our side.”

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Fonte: Address And Declaration At a Select Meeting Of The Friends Of Universal Peace And Liberty https://thomaspaine.org/essays/french-revolution/address-and-declaration.html (August 20, 1791)

“We live to improve, or we live in vain.”

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1790s

“We hold that the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty, is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance, ambition and intrigue.”

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1790s

“We think it also necessary to express our astonishment that a government, desirous of being called FREE, should prefer connection with the most despotic and arbitrary powers in Europe.”

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1790s

“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.”

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“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

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“The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.”

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Earliest citation to Paine appears to be in "Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism Vol. XXIV" https://books.google.com/books?id=ITYfh67DKncC&pg=RA11-PA33&lpg=RA11-PA33&dq=The+trade+of+governing+has+always+been+monopolized+by+the+most+ignorant+and+the+most+rascally+individuals+of+mankind.&source=bl&ots=8DHXw2Ix1C&sig=ACfU3U3Bk_9QoyDZh_LDcoEB83cEaDWTcQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp3I6MqOXxAhW2KVkFHfEsDb0Q6AEwBXoECBEQAw#v=onepage&q=The%20trade%20of%20governing%20has%20always%20been%20monopolized%20by%20the%20most%20ignorant%20and%20the%20most%20rascally%20individuals%20of%20mankind.&f=false. Not found in any of his works. Misattributed

“Credulity [...] is not a crime, but it becomes criminal by resisting conviction. It is strangling in the womb of the conscience the efforts it makes to ascertain truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in any thing.”

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Thomas Paine livro The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), The New Testament

“The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.”

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Thomas Paine livro The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795), The Old Testament

“I speak a language full and intelligible. I deal not in hints and intimations. [...] First, that I may be clearly understood. Secondly, that it may be seen I am in earnest; and, thirdly, because it is an affront to truth to treat falsehood with complaisance.”

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Thomas Paine livro The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part III (1807)