“...Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and "kept captive by polygamous fanatics." The main difference… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I [Lorna Craig] would say that teaching a girl that her salvation depends on her having sexual relations with a married man… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. "He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith--still… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“…such criticism and mockery are largely beside the point. All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“All religious belief is a function of nonrational faith. And faith, by its very definition, tends to be impervious to intellectual argument… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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