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An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
Some Mistakes of Moses (1879)
Blasphemy is what an old mistake says of a newly discovered truth.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
These claims are so at variance with every known recorded fact, so palpably absurd, that every free unbiased soul is forced to raise the standard of revolt.
Some Mistakes of Moses (1879)
There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed.
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
Some Mistakes of Moses (1879)
Day by day, religious conceptions grow less and less intense. Day by day, the old spirit dies out of book and creed.
The Gods (1876)
The heretics have not thought and suffered and died in vain. Every heretic has been, and is, a ray of light.
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Every human being longs to be happy, to satisfy the wants of the body with food, with roof and raiment, and to feed the hunger of the mind, according to his capacity, with love, wisdom, philosophy, art and song.
How To Reform Mankind (1896)
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
Which Way? (1884)
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
Churches are becoming political organizations...
Some Mistakes of Moses (1879)
There is no more perfect picture on the earth, or within the imagination of man, than a mother holding in her thrilled and happy arms a child, the fruit of love.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
I do not believe in forgiveness as it is preached by the church. We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.
What Must We Do To Be Saved? (1880)
Why should God be so jealous of the wooden idols of the heathen? Could he not compete with Baal? Was he envious of the success of the Egyptian magicians?
Some Mistakes of Moses (1879)
The men who declare that woman is the intellectual inferior of man, do not, and cannot, by offering themselves in evidence, substantiate their declaration.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Why should man be afraid to think, and why should he fear to express his thoughts?
Heretics and Heresies (1874)
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers; it is the only prayer that deserves an answer, — good, honest, noble work.
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)