Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.

I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I've always find that Aussies and Vancouver-ites in general just have a similar kind of attitude.