"If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind."

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Source : "The Face". Book by Jack Vance, 1979.

Jack Vance

#Religious Quotes #War Quotes #Race Quotes

“The consequences of man-made climate change are real and very signiï¬cant.”
“Well, when I think of ***** I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.”
“Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.”
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They donâ€™t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.”
“So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesiÃ³n. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship.”
“... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.”
“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”
“You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.”

Source : Song: The World Moves On, Album: I Know What Love Isn't, 2012

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