When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed If they had taken from the bible only that which is GOOD and thrown away the wicked and absurd If temple domes had been observatories If priests had been philosophers If missionaries had taught useful arts instead of bible lore If astrology had been astronomy If the black arts had been chemistry If superstition had been science If religion had been humanity The world then would be a heaven filled with love, and liberty and joy

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

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