Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.

“It is evident from these shining examples that our humanitarianism, like all other forms of thought, is strictly limited by time and space.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “I may dislike this quality in him so much that I am willing to kill him as the only cure; and he is equally right to kill me if he dislikes the color of my necktie. How many people were killed because they wanted to spell ‘Homoousios,’ ‘Homoiousios’ with the iota?”
  2. “We reply, ‘Certainly not, you are monsters. On with the revel!'”
  3. "We reply, 'Certainly not, you are monsters. On with the revel!'"
  4. “It is sometimes a little awkward to draw one’s morals exclusively from the teachings of Christ. They sometimes lead apparently to contradictory conclusions; and, being equally bound by both, contentions arise in ourselves which are only too likely to lead to a neurosis; and that, as you know, leads to a kind gentleman asking us about what happened when we were three years old.”
  5. "We need not be afraid of an armistice; time is on our side, not theirs."