I would like the last of the kings to be strangled by the guts of the last priest.

- Jean Meslier

Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinc…

- Jean Meslier

... inventions and purely human institutions.

- Jean Meslier

To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear…

- Jean Meslier

To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to l…

- Jean Meslier

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.

- Jean Meslier