Jacques de Molay quotes

“Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us.”
-- Jacques de Molay

Source : "Curse of the Templars" by Jamie Seidel, www.dailytelegraph.com.au. March 14, 2014.

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“For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.”
-- Jacques de Molay

Source : "The Last Templar: The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay". Book by Alain Demurger, 2009.

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“Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'”

“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”

“There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker”

“I love the saliheen (pious people) even though I’m not one of them, and I hate the taliheen (evil people) even though I (may be) worse than them.”

“But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.30, Penguin

“...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books

“There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.”

“Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.”

“Oh my god will you shut the front door already!”

“The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.”