Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.