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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”
to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”
“You can’t stop a mental epidemic. It leaps from person to person across parsecs. It’s overwhelmingly contagious. It strikes at the unprotected side, in the place where we lodge the fragments of other such plagues.
“If I could only burn this thing out of me!” she cried. “I didn’t want to be different.”
If you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!
