Temporal idols demanding an absolute faith tirelessly decree absolute punishments.

Suffering is never provisional for the man who does not believe in the future.

The age of enlightenment, as people say, wanted to suppress the death penalty on the pretext that man was naturally good. Of course he is not (he is worse or b…

Rebellion's demand is unity; historical revolution's demand is totality.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

I retaliated [against the calf worshippers] by visiting on them all manner of mischief, but I concluded, after some centuries of chronic relapsing on their par…

I saw the lightning's gleaming rod Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.