Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire is simply unnecessary.