"Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker."

"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him."

"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."

"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations."

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

"The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin."

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."