Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Shower the darkness with loveand watch light illuminate.

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

Don't be afraid to look silly.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.