The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.