"Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility…"

"The present generation of Christian believers has had what is called the moral aspect of Christianity so constantly i…"

"So far as Christianity is concerned it would puzzle the most zealous of its defenders to indicate a single direction …"

"Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need …"

"Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social…"

"All my life I have made it a rule never to permit a religious man or woman take for granted that his or her religious…"

"Of the four terms ... Praise, Blame, Punishment, and Responsibility, the cardinal and governing one is the last."

"Facts are more insistent than theories, and in the last resort it is the nature of things which determine the course …"

"Granting that an illusion may have its uses, it can only be of service so long as we do not know it to be an illusion."

"where George II died and where Queen Victoria was born is still used as apartments for the sovereign's relatives: Pri…"