“(...)'Of all the human body parts, the tongue is the most dangerous to one's soul and well being', to which quote, the priest would add, 'And to one's survival in this shitty world.' He would elaborate, 'Silence can hide both ignorance and knowledge; the second is the more dangerous.”

“There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?”

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more...”

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

“Yes, a great library — a library as magnificent as this one — was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors feared more than the greatest army or magazine. Not a single volume from the Spanish Rooms would survive, he swore, sniffling into his cup. No, no, not a single scrap would escape this holocaust!”