The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men - nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire there were millions less than when he was born.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.