Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

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

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.