Quotes by Paine, Thomas

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation i >>

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Tu >>

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. >>

Quotations about Hypocrisy

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, th >>

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that wa >>

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! >>

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Paine, Thomas