The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.