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"My mind is my own church."
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"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
"Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples."
"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any."
"When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church."
"If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them."
"Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have."
"I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church."
"There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility."
"I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Paine
"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities."
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
"One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion."
"Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively by restraining our vices. Society encourages intercourse. Government creates distinctions."
"It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim."
"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
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