As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.