Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself

It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind; and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne