“Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.”

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.

Destructiveness cannot bring happiness; destruction is against the law of creation. The law of creation is to be creative.

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.