What's the worst that could happen?
It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.
There is no middle course between the throne and the scaffold.
Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?
It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.
Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
