„To create a race of masters from a race of slaves, Mr. Whittier said, to teach a controlled group of how to create their own lives, Moses had to be an asshole.“

— Chuck Palahniuk
„How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us," Mr Whittier says, "It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„It is well known that ancient Rome looked upon the ancestors of the present-day Germans and French in the same way as the representatives of the "superior race" now look upon the Slav races. It is well known that ancient Rome treated them as an "inferior race," as "barbarians," destined to live in eternal subordination to the "superior race," to "great Rome", and, between ourselves be it said, ancient Rome had some grounds for this, which cannot be said of the representatives of the "superior race" of today.“
— Joseph Stalin