The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

...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.