Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Religion is just mind control.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Justice is truth in action.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.