A man's greatness is to be measured by his capacity for communion with others.
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille
God has no religion.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
