“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
— El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (formerly Malcolm X), By Any Means Necessary
“How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.”
— Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
“The world is a globe - the further you sail, the closer to home you are.”
— Terry Pratchett, Nation
“The goddess Ninsun, Gilgamesh’s mother, Explained her understanding of the dream - A man was coming to him, a new brother, To love and protect Gilgamesh, and seem More of a soul-mate than a friend, another Entity that, parted in the stream At birth, had found its way back to meet Itself again - and make itself complete.”
— Jenny Lewis, Gilgamesh Retold
“War began — that is, an event took place contrary to human reason and to the whole of human nature.”
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“It is much easier for men to act than to refrain from acting. We will continue to do good and to do evil.”
— Ursula K. LeGuin, The Farthest Shore
“All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“She’s let religion go to her head, but we all know that religion is for the heart, not for the head.”
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“‘The lords of war despise scholars and schoolmasters,’ said Medra. ‘I think they fear them too,’ said Veil.”
— Ursula K. LeGuin, Tales from Earthsea
“Our religion is the poetry in which we believe.”
— George Santayana
“If man has no bigger world than was known 6,000 years ago ago he can be religious, but it is a terrible thing to say that one cannot be religious when by aid of science he has come to see the infinities of space.”
— Dr. Shailer Matthews
“The world should have protected you, but you have been asked to protect it. What an honor. What an injustice.”
— Melora (played by Brian Murphy), Not Another D&D Podcast Campaign 1, Episode 97