The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.

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

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

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.

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 great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.

He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?

My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.