The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

what makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions?

You can't get any more patriotic than dying for the country.

Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

Elvis, heal me, save me. Elvis, make me be born again in the perfect Elvis light.

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.