Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Love needs no protection; it is its own protection.

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

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