God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

You're dangerous."he says. Why?" Because you make me believe in the impossible." — Simone Elkeles (Rules of Attraction)