“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

“Do not be a people without a will of your own saying: If others treat well you will also treat well and if they do wrong we will do wrong; but accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and do not do wrong if they do evil.”

“There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!”

“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”

“Evil can only prosper when good people stay quite and do nothing about it. Don't let evil prosper!”