General Sayings

Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Heraclius' city, Constantinople, will be conquered.

Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.

Their rabbis should be forbidden to teach on pain of loss of life and limb.

When the great Tao is lost, there is 'benevolence' and 'righteousness'.

The demonic powers or daævás are expressions or faces (čithr) of aká manah or 'beaten/anguished mind.'

Why call her inferior, who gives birth to kings?

I hope that the verdict will call for the death penalty.

And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with their seed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing.

It is natural for men to rule over women.

Women are by nature 'deficient and misbegotten.'

What shall I say of the abominable rape of the women? To speak of it is worse than to be silent.

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

The success of charlatans, sorcerors, and alchemists—and all those who abuse public credulity—is founded on errors in this type of calculation.

Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

No one nor anything can silence me.

We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

The orders of the generalissimo must be obeyed and Those who violate them are enemies of the people.