Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

But when a cut is deep, it’s still just flesh beneath.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

In hell, the Devil is God.

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.