It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.