“How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“If Warren Buffet made chocolate, I’ll bet it’d be really rich. And corrupt.”
― This Book Has No Title
― This Book Has No Title
“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
― I Know This Much Is True
― I Know This Much Is True
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