Frederick Quotes

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

[In a letter to Frederick the Great]”
― Voltaire

“Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.”
― Orson Scott Card, Hart's Hope

“But if ever these lines should be read in the land of Israel, which I shall never see, will someone there please say a khaddish for me?”
― Salomon Tauber