Marcus Terentius Varro Quotes

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Religion is just mind control.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

... force is the natural ally of superstition, and superstition knows it well.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.