Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

I am going to put the Bible out of business.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.