Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety."

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side."