Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.

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.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.