All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
– Edgar Allen Poe

Insanity in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
- Nietzsche

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
- Thomas Szasz

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
- George Orwell

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
- Jean Rostand

The same people that wrote the bible thought the world was flat.
- Unknown

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
- General Douglas MacArthur