“If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.”

“My mama always used to tell me: ‘if you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’”

“I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.”

“Let the Lord judge the criminals.”

“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That’s bad.”

“We wouldn’t ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals; in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals. Don’t ask me why, thank God, and ask me how.”

“Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?”

“All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.”

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up and handle it.”

“For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.”

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me light glinting on broken glass.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

We hope you’ve enjoyed this large collection of Voltaire quotes! It’s amazing how his thoughts and ideas have remained fresh and relevant from the French Enlightenment to today.

“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.”

“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”

“I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.”

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”

“Beware of the words ‘internal security,’ for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.”

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

“I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.”