Religion is a collective insanity.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

How do you know that I'm out of control? Maybe I'm just awkward.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.