The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.
Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Critique of popular revolts during the Peasants' War
1525
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"What God wills is not right because he ought, or was bound, so to will; on the contrary, what takes place must be right, because he so wills it."
Philosophical"I am a peasant's son; my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were genuine peasants. So I am a peasant and shall remain one."
Shocking"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God."
Philosophical"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not co…"
Strange & Unusual"Kill them all, God will know his own."
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