Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.