If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech.

The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.