Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error..

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know..

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel..

Help yourself, then God will also help you!.

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead o….

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation ….

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am e….

When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection..

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself..

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same str….

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down..

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business..

As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain time in the evening. I let everyt….

It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or somewhere. He'll bring in visiting ev….

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side..

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument..

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem..

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forg….

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely d….

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment..

I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be all….