If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?