The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.