Havelock Ellis wrote, “The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.”

“I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny,” said Joyce, “while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.”

“Religion,” Rand noted, “is the first enemy of the ability to think. …yet before they learn to think [men] are discouraged by being ordered to take things on faith. Faith is the worst curse of mankind.”