There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all times, it has opposed the liberty of thought and expression. It has been the sworn enemy of investigation and intellectual development. It has denied the existence of facts, the tendency of which was to undermine its power. It has always been carrying fagots to the feet of Philosophy. It has erected the gallows for Genius. It has built the dungeon for Thinkers.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.