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Thomas Paine – brytyjski pisarz i myśliciel doby oświecenia. Uczestnik rewolucji amerykańskiej, jeden z ojców założycieli USA. Prekursor liberalizmu.

W 1774 przybył do Filadelfii, w 1776 opublikował broszurę Zdrowy rozsądek, w której nawoływał do stworzenia niepodległego państwa w miejsce dotychczasowych kolonii brytyjskich w Ameryce. Brał udział w wojnie o niepodległość USA. Do Wielkiej Brytanii wrócił w 1787.

Także w ojczyźnie głosił radykalne idee wolnościowe, popierał rewolucję francuską i prawo narodów do wybierania demokratycznych rządów. Po wydaniu Praw człowieka, zagrożony aresztowaniem, uciekł do rewolucyjnej Francji, gdzie został wybrany do Zgromadzenia Narodowego, ale także osadzony w więzieniu przez jakobinów.

W Wieku rozumu przyznał, iż deizm stanowi podstawę jego poglądów. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Luty 1737 – 8. Czerwiec 1809   •   Natępne imiona Пейн Томас
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Thomas Paine słynne cytaty

„Gdy czytamy o obscenicznych historiach, niecnych uczynkach, okrutnych i poprzedzonych torturami egzekucjach, nieustannej chęci zemsty, którą wypełniona jest ponad połowa Biblii, dochodzimy do wniosku, że należałoby ją raczej nazwać słowem demona niż słowem bożym. Służyła (…) ona korupcji i brutalizacji rodzaju ludzkiego.”

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Wiek rozumu (1794)

„Wzywam najżarliwszych orędowników zgody, aby wymienili choć jedną korzyść, jaką może odnieść ten kontynent [tj. Ameryka] ze związku z Wielką Brytanią. Powtarzam to wyzwanie; nie da się znaleźć ani jednej. Nasze zboże osiągnie właściwą cenę na każdym rynku europejskim, a za towary importowane i tak musimy płacić, gdziekolwiek chcielibyśmy je kupować.”

Thomas Paine książka Zdrowy rozsądek

Zdrowy rozsądek (1776)

„Wszystko, co słuszne i rozumne, apeluje o oddzielenie. Krew zabitych, łkający głos natury woła: NADSZEDŁ CZAS, BY SIĘ ODŁĄCZYĆ.”

Thomas Paine książka Zdrowy rozsądek

Zdrowy rozsądek (1776)

„Uczestniczenie w dwóch rewolucjach oznacza, że życie ma pewien cel.”

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w liście do George'a Washingtona (1789)
Źródło: Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Paine. Prawa człowieka. Biografia

„Oto francuski bękart ląduje wraz z bandą uzbrojonych zbirów i wbrew woli mieszkańców ogłasza się królem Anglii. Mówiąc wprost, jest to zupełnie zwyczajny, drobny łajdak. Z całą pewnością nie ma w nim nic boskiego.”

Thomas Paine książka Zdrowy rozsądek

o Wilhelmie Zdobywcy, odrzucając ideę władzy królewskiej i deprecjonując pochodzenie brytyjskiej monarchii.
Zdrowy rozsądek (1776)

„Społeczeństwo jest w każdym okresie błogosławieństwem, rządy natomiast są nawet w najlepszej formie jedynie złem koniecznym.”

Thomas Paine książka Zdrowy rozsądek

Zdrowy rozsądek (1776)

Thomas Paine cytaty

„Niewierność nie dotyczy problemu wierzących i niewierzących; dotyczy udawania, że wierzy się w coś, w co się nie wierzy. Niemożliwa jest ocena moralnych następstw, jeśli mogę użyć tego określenia, które takie umysłowe zakłamanie spowodowało w społeczeństwie. Jeśli człowiek tak bardzo skorumpował i sprostytuował czystość swego umysłu, przypisując swe „poglądy” rzeczom, w które nie wierzy, to przygotował się on na popełnienie każdej innej zbrodni.”

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Wiek rozumu (1794)

„Rany i szkody, których możemy doznać, utrzymując ten związek, są niezliczone (…); wszelka podległość wobec Wielkiej Brytanii lub zależność od niej prowadzi bezpośrednio do zaangażowania się naszego kontynentu w europejskie wojny i waśnie, stawiając nas w konflikcie z narodami, z którymi w innym wypadku staralibyśmy się pozostawać w przyjaźni.”

Thomas Paine książka Zdrowy rozsądek

Zdrowy rozsądek (1776)

O przyjaźni , O wojnie

„Ogólnie rzecz biorąc, tajemniczość, cuda i proroctwa to dodatki, przynależne raczej do świata religijnych baśni, niż do prawdziwej religii. To dzięki nim różne efektowne szalbierstwa stały się znane na całym świecie, a religia przekształciła się w działalność zawodową. Powodzenie jednego oszusta zachęcało kolejnych, a ich wszystkich od wyrzutów sumienia chroniło kojące przekonanie, że dopuszczając się pobożnych oszustw czynią wiele dobrego.”

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Wiek rozumu (1794)

O religii

„To, co przychodzi nam zbyt łatwo, nisko cenimy. Tylko wysoka cena nadaje rzeczom wartość. Niebiosa wiedzą, jaką zapłatę, wziąć za swoje dobra.”

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Thomas Paine: Cytaty po angielsku

“[W]hy do men continue to practise themselves the absurdities they despise in others?”

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Thomas Paine książka Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.”

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Opening lines.
1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.”

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1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“Submission is wholly a vassalage term, repugnant to the dignity of freedom, and an echo of the language used at the Conquest.”

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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“The genuine mind of man, thirsting for its native home, society contemns the gewgaws that separate him from it. Titles are like circles drawn by the magician's wand, to contract the sphere of man's felicity.”

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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“The mind of the nation was acted upon by a higher stimulus than what the consideration of persons could inspire, and sought a higher conquest than could be produced by the downfall of an enemy.”

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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.”

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The Crisis No. I.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

“Whether, then, all ought not immediately to discontinue and renounce it, with grief and abhorrence? Should not every society bear testimony against it, and account obstinate persisters in it bad men, enemies to their country, and exclude them from fellowship; as they often do for much lesser faults?”

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1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

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Thomas Paine książka The Age of Reason

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

“It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradation we surmount the force of local prejudice as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.”

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1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“Had I served my God as faithful as I have served my king, he would not thus have forsaken me in my old age.”

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The Crisis No. II.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

“Contemplating the universe, the whole system of creation, in this point of light, we shall discover, that all that which is called natural philosophy is properly a divine study— It is the study of God through his works — It is the best study, by which we can arrive at a knowledge of the existence, and the only one by which we can gain a glimpse of his perfection.
Do we want to contemplate his power? We see it in the immensity of the Creation. Do we want to contemplate his wisdom? We see it in the unchangeable order by which the incomprehensible Whole is governed. Do we want to contemplate his munificence? We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy? We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful. In fine, do we want to know what God is? Search not written or printed books, but the Scripture called the Creation.”

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1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

“It is the nature of conquest to turn everything upside down.”

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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the second alarms like a knell.”

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Case of the Excise Officers http://www.thomaspaine.org/essays/other/case-of-the-excise-officers.html, (1772)
1770s

“While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in principle will sometimes concur in pushing forward the same movement with very different views, and with the hopes of its producing very different consequences. A great deal of this may be discovered in this embarrassed affair, and yet the issue of the whole was what nobody had in view.”

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Thomas Paine książka Rights of Man

Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“I have no wish to believe on that subject.”

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Last words (June 1809), as quoted in Thomas Paine's Rights of Man https://books.google.com/books?id=0SKFXdyu8NoC&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=%22POPISH+STUFF%22+PAINE&source=bl&ots=zo5gRksBtU&sig=RY-gWE_UoreJyKW2iUdTSkuDVQg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHi9W1mcrLAhWFnYMKHYMsCfQQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22POPISH%20STUFF%22%20PAINE&f=false, by Christopher Hitchens, p. 140
1800s

“Religion has two principal enemies, fanaticism and infidelity, or that which is called atheism. The first requires to be combated by reason and morality, the other by natural philosophy.”

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1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

“Despotic government supports itself by abject civilization, in which debasement of the human mind, and wretchedness in the mass of the people, are the chief criterions. Such governments consider man merely as an animal; that the exercise of intellectual faculty is not his privilege; that he has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; and they politically depend more upon breaking the spirit of the people by poverty, than they fear enraging it by desperation.”

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1790s, Agrarian Justice (1797)

“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.”

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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe.”

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1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Kontekst: O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her — Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

“All religions are in their nature kind and benign, and united with principles of morality. They could not have made proselytes at first by professing anything that was vicious, cruel, persecuting, or immoral. Like everything else, they had their beginning; and they proceeded by persuasion, exhortation, and example. How then is it that they lose their native mildness, and become morose and intolerant?”

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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.”

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Thomas Paine książka The Age of Reason

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

“But the chief design of this paper is not to disprove it, which many have sufficiently done; but to entreat Americans to consider.”

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1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“I bid you farewell, sincerely wishing, that as men and christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right.”

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1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.”

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The Crisis No. XIII
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

“Whether I have too little sense to see, or too much to be imposed upon; whether I have too much or too little pride, or of anything else, I leave out of the question; but certain it is, that what is called monarchy, always appears to me a silly, contemptible thing. I compare it to something kept behind a curtain, about which there is a great deal of bustle and fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity; but when, by any accident, the curtain happens to be open — and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter.”

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Chapter III http://www.constitution.org/tp/rightsman2.htm
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

“It is already on the wane, eclipsed by the enlarging orb of reason, and the luminous revolutions of America and France.”

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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“The difference between a republican and a courtier with respect to monarchy, is that the one opposes monarchy, believing it to be something; and the other laughs at it, knowing it to be nothing.”

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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“If Jesus Christ was the being which those Mythologists tell us he was, and that he came into this world to suffer, which is a word they sometimes use instead of to die, the only real suffering he could have endured, would have been to live. His existence here was a state of exilement or transportation from Heaven, and the way back to his original country was to die. In fine, everything in this strange system is the reverse of what it pretends to be.”

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Thomas Paine książka The Age of Reason

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

“No one will deny or dispute the power of the Almighty to make such a communication, if he pleases. But admitting, for the sake of a case, that something has been revealed to a certain person, and not revealed to any other person, it is revelation to that person only. When he tells it to a second person, a second to a third, a third to a fourth, and so on, it ceases to be a revelation to all those persons. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and consequently they are not obliged to believe it….. When I am told that the Koran was written in Heaven and brought to Mahomet by an angel, the account comes too near the same kind of hearsay evidence and second-hand authority as the former (Book of Exodus). I did not see the angel myself, and, therefore, I have a right not to believe it.”

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