Elon Musk shared a quote supposedly from French philosopher Voltaire on Saturday to make a joke about kids with leukemia. But the quote has frequently been debunked as something Voltaire never ...

This is a paraphrased version of a quote from a neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom. Voltaire did not write this sentence. In January 2022, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci ...

Voltaire was a critic and public activist, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, but the quote came more than two centuries after his death. "To determine the true rulers of any ...

A quote shared on social sites is wrongly attributed to the French writer and philosopher Voltaire. White nationalist Kevin Alfred Strom penned the quote. Sign up here. The quote, which reads ...

The problem: there’s no record of Voltaire ever having said it. A Google search of the quote turns up absolutely nothing before 2012. (Smarter minds note the misattribution.) Twitter seems to ...

The image includes a quote it attributed to Voltaire, the 18th-century Enlightenment writer and philosopher: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” ...

The University of Chicago compiled a searchable database of Voltaire’s published work. We searched a variety of phrases associated with the quote, and although Voltaire did write a lot about ...