No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

Every angel is terrifying.

I glance over at him

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

I believe I am of the natural.

We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.