Thomas Paine Berühmte Zitate
Der gesunde Menschenverstand, in: Die politischen Werke von Thomas Paine, Erster Band, Philadelphia 1852. S. 178
Original engl.: "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 (14. Februar 1776), Philadelphia: Bradford. MDCCLXXVI. p. 7 , en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Common_Sense
Die Rechte des Menschen: Aus dem Englischen übersetzt. Worin Grundsatz und Ausübung verbunden sind. Zweiter Theil, Kopenhagen 1792, S. 115
Original engl.: "Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good." - "Rights of Man" (1792), Part Two, Chapter V, en.wikisource https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rights_of_Man
Thomas Paine: Zitate auf Englisch
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
The complete political works. Rights of man: being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French Revolution, p. 306
1790s
1790s, First Principles of Government (1795)
Kontext: An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
“An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot”
1790s, Agrarian Justice (1797)
Quelle: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
Kontext: An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot; it will succeed where diplomatic management would fall: it is neither the Rhine, the Channel, nor the ocean that can arrest its progress: it will march on the horizon of the world, and it will conquer.
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.”
1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Kontext: The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR.
“Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.”
"Public Good" (December 1780) http://www.thomas-paine-friends.org/paine-thomas_public-good-1780.html.
1780s
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
1770s, Common Sense (1776)
To which may be replied,
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)
1770s, Common Sense (1776)
