| Book | Chapter | Quote | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who Prays for god | 1 |
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Who Prays for god | 9 |
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. | Ayn Rand |
| Who Prays for god | 14 |
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Who Prays for god | 16 |
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Who Prays for god | 19 |
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Who Prays for god | 20 |
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. | Carl Sagan |
| Who Prays for god | 36 |
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive | Ayn Rand |
| Who Prays for god | 41 |
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? | Richard Feynman |
| Who Prays for god | 42 |
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. | Marie Curie |
| Who Prays for god | 46 |
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. | Ayn Rand |
| Who Prays for god | 47 |
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. | John Locke |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 2 |
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. | Carl Sagan |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 3 |
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 5 |
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 6 |
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. | William Butler Yeats |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 7 |
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 10 |
Live Free ot Die | NH motto |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 10 |
Deserve Victory | Wizard's Rule series |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 11 |
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it. | H. L. Mencken |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 12 |
"[Davis], naturally the common people don't want war. But after all it is I, the leader of the Church, who determines policy, and throughout history it has always been a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it was a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or parliament or a communist dictatorship or a theocracy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of piety and patriotism and exposing the country or Church to danger. It has always worked the same, every time, in every country. | Hermann Goering (1893-1945) Nazi Reichsmarschall |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 14 |
not really a quote, just puns: The Kid's are Alright. Who's Next? | The Who |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 16 |
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. | Voltaire |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 18 |
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope | Robert Green Ingersoll |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 19 |
it's not that power corrupts, it's that power attracts the corruptible | Frank Herbert |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 23 |
War is the science of destruction | John Abbott |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 26 |
I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, smite ye above their necks and smite all their limbs off them | Koran Sura 47:4 |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 32 |
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins | Ayn Rand |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 33 |
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 34 |
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind | Charlotte P. Gilman |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 34 |
The most generous Prophet (God's salutations be upon Him and His relatives) bade: A person who does not heed prayer and takes it lightly deserves the torture of the Day of Judgment | Khomeini |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 46 |
[paraphrase]... life's principle...was to desire and to strive to achieve ethical values. From a particular moment, however, I was prevented by the State from living according to this principle. I had to switch from the unity of ethics to one of multiple morals. I had to yield to the inversion of values which was prescribed by the State. | Adolf Eichmann |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 47 |
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh. | Robert Heinlein |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 51 |
There will be a short intermission while we drop our bomb. | Bombardier who dropped the Nagasaki bomb |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 51 |
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. | Marie Joseph Eugène Sue |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 51 |
the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. | Neville Chamberlain |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 51 |
that hope is a universal liar who never losses his reputation for veracity? | Robert Green Ingersoll |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 51 |
It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in 't. | William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 51 |
Work on my medicine, work on. Thus credulous fools are caught.” | William Shakespeare Othello |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 54 |
When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty. | Arthur Ponsonby |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 55 |
The beauteous scarf can entrap the wisest--Bassanio Merchant of Venice | Shakespere |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 55 |
Ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. (partial quote) Davis |
Shakespere |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 58 |
He that lives upon hope will die fasting | Ben Franklin |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 62 |
When internal and external forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards the restoration of a capitalist regime, then socialism in that country and the socialist community as a whole is threatened. (paraphrase) | Leonid Brezhnev |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 62 |
When internal and external forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards the restoration of a capitalist regime, then socialism in that country and the socialist community as a whole is threatened. (paraphrased). | Leonid Brezhnev |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 62 |
It behooves you to reflect on the last wills and testaments of the thousands who left you three days ago, and today, as they gestured in despair. They are important testaments, which should be studied and researched | Osama Bin Laden |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 63 |
SCE to Aux | CapComm engineer for Apollo 13 |
| Who Mourns for Giordano | 63 |
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom | Charles Peguy, French philosopher |
| Who Curses the devil | 3 |
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. | Charles William Dement |
| Who Curses the devil | 7 |
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader. | Douglas Jerrold |
| Who Curses the devil | 8 |
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. | French Proverb |
| Who Curses the devil | 10 |
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. | Ray L. Wilbur |
| Who Curses the devil | 16 |
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. | Horace Mann |
| Who Curses the devil | 21 |
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. | Carl Sagan |
| Who Curses the devil | 23 |
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. | Blaise Pascal |
| Who Curses the devil | 25 |
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. | Confucius |
| Who Curses the devil | 29 |
The question is this: is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new-fangled theories. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Who Curses the Devil | 35 |
A single blow must destroy the enemy, without regard of losses; a gigantic all-destroying blow. | Adolf Hitler |
| Who Curses the devil | 37 |
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only. | Thomas Hobbes |
| Who Curses the devil | 40 |
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there. | Richard Feynman |
| Who Curses the devil | 42 |
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. | Robert H. Goddard |
| Who Curses the devil | 43 |
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. | William Congreve |
| Who Curses the devil | 49 |
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. | Carl Sagan |
| Who Curses the devil | 59 |
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. | Aldous Huxley |
| Who Curses the devil | 62 |
Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. | Romans 12:19 |
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