Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.