It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.