All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.