There Are Two Things That Kill A

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.

If There Is A Soul, What Is It, And Where Did It Come From, And Where Does It Go? Can Anyone Who Is Guided By His Reason Possibly Imagine A Soul Independent Of A Body, Or The Place Of Its Residence, Or The Character Of It, Or Anything Concerning It? If Man Is Justified In Any Belief Or Disbelief On Any Subject, He Is Warranted In The Disbelief In A Soul. Not One Scrap Of Evidence Exists To Prove Any Such Impossible Thing.

Do You Think You Can Cure The Hatreds And The Maladjustments Of The World By Hanging Them? You Simply Show Your Ignorance And Your Hate When You Say It. You May Here And There Cure Hatred With Love And Understanding, But You Can Only Add Fuel To The Flames By Cruelty And Hate.

An Idea Is A Greater Monument Than A Cathedral.

True Patriotism Hates Injustice In Its Own Land More Than Anywhere Else.