Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.