A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
There is only one way to hurt someone who has lost everything — give him back something broken.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window.
There is no such thing as justice–in or out of court.
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves – from “justifying” ourselves.