Corey Taylor Quotes

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

You can not kill that which is already dead.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

If you say that there was no first cause (a Creator), then you are stuck with the unscientific and thoughtless belief that nothing created everything. So, what is it that you believe? Is it that something created everything? Then you are not an atheist, because you believe in a Creator.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

I've created such a monster.

Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

That which is produced with intention has passed over from non-existence to existence.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

We can destroy only as creators

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.