Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.

These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!