One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

You want to start over?" he murmured against her ear. His hot breath sent shivers to her toes.

So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.

People don't just want to feel satisfied. They actually want to act.

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.