“Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.”

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”

“The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.”

“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly uninteresting that immoral people can hide them and moral people cannot find them.”

“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.”

“Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.”