“Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.”

“They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.”

“The waters which we spread upon the desert have become blood. Blood upon our land! Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it has lured the stranger and seduced him in our midst. They come for violence! Their faces are closed up as for the last wind of Kralizec! They gather the captivity of the sand. They suck up the abundance of the sand, the treasure hidden in the depths. Behold them as they go forth to their evil work. It is written: 'And I stood upon the sand, and I saw a beast rise up out of that sand, and upon the head of that beast was the name of God!”

“There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness.”

“We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.”

“Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”

“The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.”