If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.