I have nothing against respecting people who lived before but we have no responsibility toward them.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Religion creates community community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

The more powerful and original a mind the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.