The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.

It feels good. It feels real good.

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realized they couldn't do everything.

The difficulty in living our religion is when we haven't totally made the commitment necessary.