When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them

Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.

Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx)

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.