Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

In religion I do not see the mystery of the Incarnation, but the mystery of the social order. It associates with Heaven an idea of equality that keeps rich men from being massacred by the poor…Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!