Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

Your calling is your natural area of concentration

The world is corrupt, and the way for me to make it better is not by writing letters, but joining my efforts with those of others to produce a work of beauty.

Montesquieu had the style of a genius Buffon the genius of style.

You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.

The depth of love is revealed in its departure.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.