When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproa — Christianity

"Say: He, Allah, is One. Allah is He on Whom all depend. He begets not, nor is He begotten. And none is like Him."

"Chose admirable! la religion chrétienne, qui ne semble avoir dobjet que la félicité de lautre vie, fait encore notre bonheur dans celle-ci."

"Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?"

"The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code..."

"The clergy, by teaching the helplessness of man, his utter dependence on Providence, and the doctrine of atonement, have crushed in their faithful followers every atom of self-reliance and self-respect. So true is this, that it is becoming an axiom that the most honorable men are to be found among atheists and the so-called "infidels"."

"If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them."