The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

A mere society form of Atheism.

There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books.

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

Sometimes daughter who is loved by her father very much and loving her father very much, she is getting hurt by her lover very much.

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

You are alone with everything you love.

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.