It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown… The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.