#paine

I am not religious, more like a thinking, open-minded individual. Religions and their dogmas are not necessarily bad. Human beings interpreting them are. ↗

— Tuomas Holopainen

#nightwish #tuomas-holopainen #religion

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#greatest #greatest men #i #i think #lived

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong. ↗

— Patti Smith

#am #around #articulate #common #common sense

My own mind is my own church ↗

— Thomas Paine

#mind #responsabilityibility #thomas-paine #age

I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#love

قهر الإستبداد ليس بالأمر السهل , ولكن ما يعَزينا أنه كلما اشتد الصراع قسوة ...كلما ازداد النصر مجدًا ↗

— Thomas Paine

#common-sense

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#faith

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#consider #cost #himself #how #humane

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. ↗

— Treat Williams

#independence #paine #robert #treat

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down