“If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace”

“What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?”

“theology is to religion what poisons are to food”

“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.”

“Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.”