The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erec….

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead..

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death….

My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of h….

The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will….

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas..

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul..

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of resu….

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignor….

Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains….

TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY, AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS..

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests..

It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized….

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to succ….

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed..

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian..

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investig….

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a….

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he unde….

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least..

Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul..