James

“Sorlost. I did not wonder at the blank broken faces that came to me, laid themselves before my knife. I see it now in Tyrenae, and I begin to understand it. Blind children and madmen go begging in the streets here. The wealthy look at them and turn away and do not care.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying

“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges— have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing could be more absurd…all that man has accomplished for the benefit of man since the close of the Dark Ages—has been done in spite of the Old Testament.” — Robert G. Ingersoll, About the Holy Bible: A Lecture, 18941”
― Andrew L Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

“and so he gave her his own truth in return. It was strange the way that people venerated truth. Everyone seemed to strive for it, as though it were some unalloyed good, a perfect gem of glittering rectitude. Women and men might disagree about its definition, but priests and prostitutes, mothers and monks all mouthed the word with respect, even reverence. No one seemed to realize how stooped the truth could be, how twisted and how ugly.”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond

“who’s-the-biggest-cunt contest, wouldn’t you say?” Shivers slowly nodded. “A real arsehole’s parade.” “But then the arseholes tend to win, don’t they?”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred