Demons of the Dancing Gods Quotes

“Better to end it than to bring into being generations yet to be born to suffer all the more!”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods

“killed. A world that worships martyrdom above all else, that equates good with dying for a good cause, is a world that is so mad it is unbelievable.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods

“also because they felt I would eventually pack up and leave. I’m angry and I’m frustrated. I haven’t felt this way since I stood in front of the Marines’ demolished barracks in Beirut and helped them haul out the bodies of more than two hundred fine young men. When you meet and look into the eyes of fanatical young men who are perfectly willing to drive a truck full of explosives into a place and detonate it, even though they, too, will die, all because some so-called religious leader, for his own ends, told them God wanted them to do so, and you turn around, in your own small, peaceful village here in the United States, and see the same look and the same devotion on those who once were your friends and neighbors…” He paused a moment, trying to force down his fury.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods

“Evil wins out much of the time because it is so easy,” Poquah noted. “Good wins because it is earned and deserves to. That is the test, don’t you see? Every once in a while an individual or group must face the ultimate evil. A test, as it were. This time it is we who are chosen to do so. Heaven and Hell are betting on our outcome. If we prevail, we prove that good is still superior to evil”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods

“wrongly, in him.” Macore nodded sympathetically. “Yeah, it’s always that way. You get some sincere people with good ideas making a real go at it and the con artists and the charlatans aren’t far behind.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods

“truth of oratory—it is not what you say but how you say it that counts for everything. Consider just how little a politician actually says, as compared to what his or her listeners believe about that politician.”
― Jack L. Chalker, Demons of the Dancing Gods