Quotation

Quotes (5 of 8) from NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (DVD) Speech (part 1 of 3) - "I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur against the dirty colours of military uniforms. I love the powerful words of the bible. I need the force of its poetry. I need it against the decay of language and the dictatorship of worthless slogans. But there is another world in which I do not wish to live in. A world in which independent thinking is disparaged, and the finest things we can experience denounced as sin. A world in which our love is demanded by tyrants, oppressors and assassins. And most absurdly, people are exhorted from the pulpit to forgive these creatures and even to love them. But it is for this reason we cannot just put the bible aside. We have to throw it away completely for it speaks only of a vain, holier-than-thou, God. In his omnipresence the Lord, observing us day and night, he takes note of our acts and thoughts.