Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.