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Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

Long-haired preachers come out every night
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right
But when asked about something to eat
They will answer in voices so sweet

'You will eat, by and by,
In that glorious land above the sky
Work and pray, live on hay -
You'll get pie in the sky when you die' - that's a lie!

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

The Christian God is a being of terrific character -- cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust.

The day will come when the mistical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Imagination is more important than knowledge...

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Praying is like a rocking chair -- it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The man who says to men, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall kill you."

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial, is to say they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. I cannot reason otherwise.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

… more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

The best thing about being rich is that you don’t have to stand on line.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in allegiance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection of his own.

Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

A being who has the power to prevent it and yet allows thousands and millions of his children to starve, who devours them with earthquakes, who allows whole nations to be enslaved, cannot – in my judgment – be implicitly depended upon to do justice in another world.

As to the existence of the supernatural, one man knows precisely as much, and exactly as little as another. Upon this question, chimpanzees and cardinals, apes and popes are upon exact equality.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.