"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creat...
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
More Thomas Paine quotes
"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration...
"Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
"Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot m...
"But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of ado...
"Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good...
"Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the whole of the habitable creation, yet it is so worked ...
"When also I am told that a woman, called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her...
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it cons...
"It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
"The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this...