You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

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

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

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.