I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

‚A living dog is better than a dead lion.‘ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

You have your ideology and I have mine.