Thursday, August 8, 2013

ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS: VOLTAIRE

"It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?"

~ Excerpt from a Treatise on Toleration (1763) ~