Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Secular ideologies and nationalisms have also caused significant violence.
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Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of e…
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If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is- holy war.
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I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.