“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

“Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence.”

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions”

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one”

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people”

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“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”

“Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.”

“Be careful. Don't fall into the sar-chasm. ”