... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.