It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.

You've just said a very revealing thing. Are you telling me that the only reason you don't steal and rape and murder is that you're frightened of God?

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The relig…