No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.