To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only errs when he speaks, but actually lies — and that he no longer escapes blame for his lie through “innocence” or “ignorance.” The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any “God,

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."

There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.