“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sex is, directly or indirectly, the most powerful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; and precisely because there is no moral… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“What do I mean when I say that I think I was Eliphaz Lévi ? No more than that I possess some… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and… — Joyce Moyer Hostetter Copy Share Image
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Shameful confession, one of my own Chelas (or so it is rather incredibly reported to me) said recently: "Self-discipline is a form… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting one self is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular,… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there is any class which… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The moral, dear child, is that such powers are never to be considered as the main object; it ought in fact to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“For true Magick means "to employ one set of natural forces at a mechanical advantage as against another set"—I quote, as closely… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“The "herrenvolk" [master race] are all around you, threading their way on their bicycles between the piles of rubble or rushing off… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“There is great danger in this Golden Mean, one of whose main objects is to steer clear of shipwreck, Scylla being as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
