Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows dont understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. Instead of facing that fact, you persist in trying to convert all men to your own little sect, so that you can use it against them afterwards. You are all missionaries and proselytizers trying to uproot the native religion from your neighbor's flowerbeds and plant your own in its place. You would rather let a child perish in ignorance than have it taught by a rival sectary. You can talk to me of the quintessential equality of coal merchants and British officers; and yet you cant see the quintessential equality of all the religions.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

The Being who has influenced in the most memorable manner the opinions and the fortunes of the human species, is Jesus Christ. At this day, his name is connect…

I believe in the separation of church and state... We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all…