There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.