Christopher McMahon

“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened, than in what it meant. It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.”
― Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“The descent into Hell is easy”
― Virgil, The Aeneid