| Religion without science is blind. |
| Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. |
| Good people can do good and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil -- that takes religion. |
| Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. |
| Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. |
| Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. |
| There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. |
| God has assigned as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman. |
| Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. |
| When one person suffers from delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer, it is called religion. |
