“The knowledge exists by which universal happines can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilisation for that purpose is the teaching of religion. Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the ethic of scientific co-operation in place [...]

I don’t believe in spirituality, religion, God, that human beings aren’t the same as animals, in dieting, that all obesity is wrong, or that lanky figures are. I don’t consider people to have souls, transmittable through years and generations, and as such do not believe in reincarnation, ghosts, the undead, spirits, that people can talk [...]