The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.