quotes
just finished reading queen of the damned today, and there are a few passages i liked...
"...it is as if the human species has grown immune to such things; it has evolved perhaps to a higher stage where the antics of spirits no longer befuddle it. and tho religions linger--old religions which became entrenched in darker times--they are losing their influence among the educated very rapidly."
"...i turned to the family as if it were the very spring of life itself... and the family taught me the rhythms and passions of each new age; the family took me into alien lands where perhaps i never would have ventured alone; the family took me to realms of art which might have intimidated me; the family was my guide thru time and space. my teacher, my book of life. the family was all things."
"...history is a litany of injustice, no one denies it. but when has a simple solution ever been anything but evil? only in complexity to we find answers. thru complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it's the only way. simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. it always has."
"i tell u, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil--religion or the pure idea. the intervention of the supernatural or the elegant simple abstract solution! both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.
don't u see? it is not man who is the enemy of the human species. it is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein."
"...it is as if the human species has grown immune to such things; it has evolved perhaps to a higher stage where the antics of spirits no longer befuddle it. and tho religions linger--old religions which became entrenched in darker times--they are losing their influence among the educated very rapidly."
"...i turned to the family as if it were the very spring of life itself... and the family taught me the rhythms and passions of each new age; the family took me into alien lands where perhaps i never would have ventured alone; the family took me to realms of art which might have intimidated me; the family was my guide thru time and space. my teacher, my book of life. the family was all things."
"...history is a litany of injustice, no one denies it. but when has a simple solution ever been anything but evil? only in complexity to we find answers. thru complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it's the only way. simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. it always has."
"i tell u, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil--religion or the pure idea. the intervention of the supernatural or the elegant simple abstract solution! both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.
don't u see? it is not man who is the enemy of the human species. it is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein."