destruction

You must be determined to overcome the insults of the ungodliness of this world with the weapon of the light inside of you.

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.

The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium.

Everyone who fights always fight with a purpose in mind.

A fruit that comes forth is the desire and joy for the labour of a farmer.

Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.

You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.

God hates ignorance.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon."]

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.

War is the science of destruction.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Ignorance is a limitation.

If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.