Status Updates From The Crusible

“My wife will never die for me! I will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will not die for me!”

“I’ll not give my wife to vengeance!”

“Political opposition, thereby, is given an inhumane overlay which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized intercourse. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.”

“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regarded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapses; when we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness-until redeemed-the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon,”

“The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are rel-ative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenom-enon”