From Cities of The Plain, by Cormac McCarthy

Your kind cannot bear that the world be ordinary. That it contain nothing save what stands before one. But the Mexican world is a world of adornment only and underneath it is very plain indeed. While your world...totters upon an unspoken labyrinth of questions. And we will devour you, my friend. You and all your pale empire.

The Heart of the Matter, by Graham Greene

He took her wrists and held them furiously. He said, "You can't get out of it that way. I believe, I tell you. I believe that I'm damned for all eternity - unless a miracle happens. I'm a policeman. I know what I'm saying. What I've done is far worse than murder - that's an act, a blow, stab, a shot: It's over and done, but I'm carrying my corruption around with me. It's the coating of my stomach."
-Scobie, explaining his damnation to Helen

Great Quote

"The state is a Protestant substitute church."

Found at A Conservative Blog for Peace, but I'm not sure if Serge actually making the remark or quoting someone else.

Nothing so pretty...

Nothing so pretty as vanished fear.

-Nothing By Chance, Richard Bach

Great Quotes X

When television viewers these days see the typical sociologist on their screen, adopting a predictably provocative position on some controversial issue, their most common response is not belief but wonder at how someone with views so divergent from ordinary intelligence ever got a job at a university in the first place.

Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History

Great Quotes IX

The inadequate and biased transmission of news, and the profitable dissemination of nonsense, barred the general public from any intelligent or concerted participation in politics, and made democracy impossible.

- Will Durant, on newspapers of the 17th century, in The Age of Reason Begins

Sound familiar?

Great Quotes VIII

Great Quotes VII

No one thought of letting the people rule; politics was - as always - a contest of minorities to determine which should rule the majority.

- Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins

Great Quotes VI

Bread is important, freedom is more important, but most important of all is unbroken fidelity and faithful adoration.

- Alfred Delp, S.J.

Great Quotes V

An exile now. O God, O God.
No one to help. I am alone.

-Medea, a play by Euripides

Great Quotes IV

The opposite of ideology is mercy.

- The Ochlophobist

Great Quote III

“There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.”

-Cormac McCarthy, New York Times interview, 1992

Great Quote II

What shall I say first? What shall I keep until the end? The gods have tried me in a thousand ways. But first my name: let that be known to you, and if I pull away from pitiless death, friendship will bind us, though my land lies far.

I am Laertes' son, Odysseus.

-Homer
The Odyssey

Great Quote I

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain.

Their birth in grief and ashes.

-Cormac McCarthy
The Road