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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. — Carl Sagan
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. — Anatole France
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. — Robert A. Heinlein
Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass growsThe West Wind goes walking, and about the walls it goes.What — J.R.R. Tolkien
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . ( — J.R.R. Tolkien
The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall... — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day? — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time. — Frances Hardinge
Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have g — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own — Joseph Campbell
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego. — Michael Crichton, Next
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political — Norman G. Finkelstein, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, 'when you — K.W. Jeter
During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her so — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me. — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
You will not pass!” Roman thundered.Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf. — Ilona Andrews, Gunmetal Magic
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity. — H.W. Brands