“To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.”
“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”
“What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?”
“A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.”
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
“Why what a fool was I to this drunken monster for a God. - Caliban”