Sandra Day O’Connor

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly? When the government associates one set of religious beliefs with the state and identifies nonadherents as outsiders, it encroaches upon the individual’s decision about whether and how to worship… Allowing government to be a potential mouthpiece for competing religious ideas risks the sort of division that might easily spill over into suppression of rival beliefs. (This is an excerpt from today's MCCREARY COUNTY v. ACLU decision)

John Weakland (psychotherapist)

Before successful therapy, it’s the same damn thing over and over. After successful therapy, it’s one damn thing after another.

Ayn Rand

Ethics is not a mystic fantasy, nor a social convention, nor a dispensable, subjective luxury.... Ethics is an _objective necessity of man's survival, not by the grace of the supernatural nor of your neighbors nor of your whims, but by the grace of reality and the nature of life.

Roy Brown

I have a duty of respect to every individual -- to their privacy, dignity and autonomy, regardless of their religion -- because we all share our common humanity. But how can I respect any religion that maintains, against overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago? We have no duty of respect to nonsense, however ancient its origins.