Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity. - Georges Bernanos

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred.

If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.