" Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. " | " Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. " | " A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. " |
" The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. " | " Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true. " | " Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. " |