This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.