The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

...the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.

The predictions of false prophets always come true.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.