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Thomas Paine fue un político, escritor, filósofo, intelectual radical y revolucionario estadounidense de origen inglés. Promotor del liberalismo y de la democracia. Es considerado uno de los Padres fundadores de los Estados Unidos.

Nacido en Thetford, en el condado inglés de Norfolk, Paine emigró a las colonias británicas en América en 1774 para participar en la revolución americana. Sus contribuciones principales fueron el tan leído ensayo Common Sense , donde abogaba por la independencia de las colonias y The American crisis una serie de escritos a favor de la revolución.

En 1789 visitó Francia y allí vivió durante casi toda la década siguiente. Se vio envuelto profundamente en los primeros años de la Revolución francesa. Escribió Rights of Man , en parte una defensa de la Revolución francesa contra sus críticos, en particular el hombre de estado británico Edmund Burke. En Gran Bretaña, fue juzgado y declarado culpable en ausencia por el crimen de libelo sedicioso. A pesar de no hablar francés, fue elegido para la Convención Nacional en 1792. Los girondinos le vieron como un aliado por lo que los montañeses, en especial Robespierre, lo consideraron su enemigo. En diciembre de 1793, fue arrestado y encarcelado en París y liberado en 1794. Se hizo notorio por La edad de la razón , libro que aboga por el deísmo, promueve la razón y el librepensamiento, argumenta en contra de la religión institucionalizada y las doctrinas cristianas. También escribió Justicia agraria , discutiendo los orígenes de la propiedad e introduciendo el concepto de renta mínima garantizada. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. febrero 1737 – 8. junio 1809   •   Otros nombres Пейн Томас
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Frases célebres de Thomas Paine

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“"Discutir con un hombre que ha renunciado al uso y la autoridad de la razón, y cuya filosofía consiste en despreciar a la humanidad, es como administrar la medicina a los muertos o tratar de convertir a un ateo por las Escrituras".”

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“Es tal la fuerza irresistible de la verdad, que lo único que pide y lo único que necesita es libertad para mostrarse. El Sol no necesita ningún rótulo para que se le distinga de la oscuridad.”

Thomas Paine

Fuente: Pumarega, Manuel. Frases célebres de hombres célebres. 3ª Edición. Editorial México, 1949, p. 248.

“Mi país es el Mundo y mi religión es hacer el bien.”

Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Fuente: Sociedad civil global: 2004/2005. Editorial Icaria Editorial, 2005. ISBN 9788474268232, p. 137.
Fuente: Los derechos del hombre, 1791

“Hay dos clases de pensamientos: los que nosotros mismos producimos por la reflexión y el acto de pensar, y los que acuden a la mente por su propia voluntad.”

Thomas Paine

“La religión cristiana es una parodia de la adoración del Sol, en la cual se puso a un hombre al que llamaron Cristo en el lugar del Sol, y le ofrecieron la adoración que originalmente se ofrecía al Sol.”

Thomas Paine

Fuente: Citado en Lococo Nicola. La ilustracion iniciada. Editorial Masonica.es, 2016.

Thomas Paine Frases y Citas

“Es una falsedad del sistema cristiano considerar a las ciencias como una invención humana: lo único que es humano es su aplicación. Toda ciencia se basa en un sistema de principios tan fijos e inalterables como los que rigen el universo. El hombre no puede establecer principios. Lo único que puede hacer es descubrirlos.”

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De vejez , Ciencia , Universo , Falsedad

“El gobierno, en la mejor condición, es un mal necesario; y en la peor es insoportable.”

Thomas Paine

Fuente: Escandón, Rafael. Frases célebres para toda ocasión. Editorial Diana, 1982. ISBN 978-96-8131-285-5, p. 124.

Mal

“Que se cuente al mundo futuro… que en el más profundo invierno, cuando no podía sobrevivir nada más que la esperanza y la virtud… la ciudad y el campo, alarmados ante el peligro común, se apresuraron a hacerle frente.”

Thomas Paine

Fuente: Pérez de las Heras, Mónica. El secreto de Obama. LID Editorial, 2009.
Fuente: Discurso de investidura de Barak Obama, 20 de enero de 2009. http://www.beersandpolitics.com/discursos/barack-obama/discurso-de-investidura/29
Fuente: De La crisis americana.

De esperanza , Invierno , Futuro , De mundo

“Estos son los tiempos que ponen a prueba el alma de los hombres. El soldado de verano y el patriota de tiempos tranquilos se abstendrán de prestar servicios a su país; pero el que puede resistir ahora merece el amor y agradecimiento de hombres y mujeres. La tiranía, como el infierno, no es fácil de vencer; pero tenemos este consuelo: que cuanto más duro es el conflicto, tanto más glorioso es el triunfo. Lo que nos cuesta poco, lo estimamos también en poco: es sólo lo que nos cuesta lo que da a cada cosa su valor.”

Thomas Paine

Fuente: Asimov, Isaac. El nacimiento de los Estados Unidos, 1763-1816. Traductor Néstor Mínguez. Alianza Editorial, S.A., 1995. ISBN 8420699683, p. 97.
Fuente: Primer número de La crisis americana, publicado el 23 de diciembre de 1776.

País , Verano , Valor , Infierno

Thomas Paine: Frases en inglés

“Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.”

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1790s, Agrarian Justice (1797)

“I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.”

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1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“… like a man being both mortgagor and mortgagee, and in the case of misapplication of trust it is the criminal sitting in judgment upon himself.”

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Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

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

“They stand not aloof with the gaping vacuity of vulgar ignorance, nor bend with the cringe of sycophantic insignificance. The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.”

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

“And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.”

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As quoted in The Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Moncure D. Conway, vol. 3 (1895), p. 252
1790s, Letter to George Washington (1796)

“The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureat.”

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Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

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

“Many of these were not prisoners of war, and redeemed from savage conquerors, as some plead; and they who were such prisoners, the English, who promote the war for that very end, are the guilty authors of their being so; and if they were redeemed, as is alleged, they would owe nothing to the redeemer but what he paid for them.”

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1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“When at first thought we think of a creator our ideas appear to us undefined and confused; but if we reason philosophically, those ideas can be easily arranged and simplified. It is a Being, whose power is equal to his will.”

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1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

“Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage, than any victory with all its expence.”

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Thomas Paine libro Los derechos del hombre

Part Two, Chapter V. Ways and means of improving the condition of Europe, interspersed with miscellaneous observations.
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

“The past treatment of Africans must naturally fill them with abhorrence of Christians; lead them to think our religion would make them more inhuman savages, if they embraced it; thus the gain of that trade has been pursued in opposition to the Redeemer's cause, and the happiness of men: Are we not, therefore, bound in duty to him and to them to repair these injuries, as far as possible, by taking some proper measures to instruct, not only the slaves here, but the Africans in their own countries? Primitive Christians laboured always to spread their Divine Religion; and this is equally our duty while there is an Heathen nation: But what singular obligations are we under to these injured people!”

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1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur…”

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

“It has been the error of schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the Author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them, and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
When we examine an extraordinary piece of machinery, an astonishing pile of architecture, a well-executed statue, or a highly-finished painting where life and action are imitated, and habit only prevents our mistaking a surface of light and shade for cubical solidity, our ideas are naturally led to think of the extensive genius and talent of the artist. When we study the elements of geometry, we think of Euclid. When we speak of gravitation, we think of Newton. How, then, is it that when we study the works of God in creation, we stop short and do not think of God? It is from the error of the schools in having taught those subjects as accomplishments only and thereby separated the study of them from the Being who is the Author of them.”

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1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

“The Managers of that Trade themselves, and others, testify, that many of these African nations inhabit fertile countries, are industrious farmers, enjoy plenty, and lived quietly, averse to war, before the Europeans debauched them with liquors, and bribing them against one another; and that these inoffensive people are brought into slavery, by stealing them, tempting Kings to sell subjects, which they can have no right to do, and hiring one tribe to war against another, in order to catch prisoners. By such wicked and inhuman ways the English are said to enslave towards one hundred thousand yearly; of which thirty thousand are supposed to die by barbarous treatment in the first year; besides all that are slain in the unnatural wars excited to take them. So much innocent blood have the Managers and Supporters of this inhuman Trade to answer for to the common Lord of all!”

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1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“The Theophilanthropists do not call themselves the disciples of such or such a man. They avail themselves of the wise precepts that have been transmitted by writers of all countries and in all ages.”

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1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)

“Wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for God's sake let us come to a final separation.”

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1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.”

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

“When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast of its constitution and its government.”

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Part 2.7 Chapter V. Ways and means of improving the condition of Europe, interspersed with miscellaneous observations
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances … that no human wisdom can calculate the end.”

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Prospects on the Rubicon http://books.google.com/books?id=PN9bAAAAQAAJ&q=%22War+involves+in+its+progress+such+a+train+of+unforseen+and+unsupposed+circumstances%22+%22that+no+human+wisdom+can+calculate+the+end%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage (1787).
1780s

“With what consistency, or decency they complain so loudly of attempts to enslave them, while they hold so many hundred thousands in slavery; and annually enslave many thousands more, without any pretence of authority, or claim upon them?”

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1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“Whenever we read the obscene stories the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon rather than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.”

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Thomas Paine libro The Age of Reason

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

“WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”

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1770s, Common Sense (1776)

“He who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”

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The Crisis No. V http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3741/3741-h/3741-h.htm#link2H_4_0009
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

“They began to consider the Aristocracy as a kind of fungus growing out of the corruption of society, that could not be admitted even as a branch of it…”

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

“It has often been said, that anything may be proved from the Bible, but before anything can be admitted as proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true; for if the Bible be not true, or the truth of it be doubtful, it ceases to have authority, and cannot be admitted as proof of anything.”

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Thomas Paine libro The Age of Reason

1790s, The Age of Reason, Part II (1795)

“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, — and all it wants, — is the liberty of appearing. The sun needs no inscription to distinguish him from darkness; and no sooner did the American governments display themselves to the world, than despotism felt a shock and man began to contemplate redress.”

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Part 2.2 Introduction
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate prejudices between Nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.”

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Preface
1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

“TO AMERICANS. THAT some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men byut that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men, and several late publications.”

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1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

“As it is necessary to affix right ideas to words, I will, before I proceed further into the subject, offer some other observations on the word revelation.”

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Thomas Paine libro The Age of Reason

Revelation, when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man.
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 Moses told the children of Israel that he received the two tables of the commandments from the hands of God, they were not obliged to believe him, because they had no other authority for it than his telling them so; and I have no other authority for it than some historian telling me so. The commandments carry no internal evidence of divinity with them; they contain some good moral precepts, such as any man qualified to be a lawgiver, or a legislator, could produce himself, without having recourse to supernatural intervention.
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. I did not see the angel myself, and, therefore, I have a right not to believe it.
When also I am told that a woman called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, Joseph, said that an angel told him so, I have a right to believe them or not: such a circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it; but we have not even this — for neither Joseph nor Mary wrote any such matter themselves; it is only reported by others that they said so — it is hearsay upon hearsay, and I do not choose to rest my belief upon such evidence.
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)

“There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes.”

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1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)