No pope ever condemned slavery.

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

The absence of theistic belief...

The absence of theistic bel

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.

The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals).

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

I never miss England.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.