Famous quotes containing the words thomas paine, thomas and/or paine:
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
“Great is the hand that holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)