Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
I cry for those not yet dead.
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.