I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward. It strips us of the right to make our own determination, as all humans always have, about what is and what is not a right human action.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.