In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads of the ecclesiastical and secular powers should do and want by virtue of their offices.


Die Leuchte des Diogenes (1804) p. 329.

Adam Weishaupt Quotes

In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, ...

In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, ...

In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, ...

In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, ...