Robert Ferrigno

“The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.”

“You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.”

“Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.”

“If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.”

“I'm married to the future.”

“Most wars start with a lie, good wars, bad wars, they start with a lie, and the peace that comes afterwards, those promises of forgiveness and cooperation and fair play for all… those are lies too, lies wrapped in hope.”

“They're fucking crosses. Just stick them in the ground. If there's a heaven they're already there. If not… it doesn't matter if the crosses are nice or not.”

“Studying history is for tourists - polite, tidy people with clean desks and clean consciences. Making history is for people willing to get their hands dirty, to make mistake and lie when necessary, so that someday historians can sit quietly at their desks and act shocked.”

“Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.”

“People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.”

“- Murder is a sin. It's a sin in Judaism, it's a sin in Christianity, it's a sin in Islam and every other…- I'll decide what's a sin.”

“Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.”

“It's the small sins that save you. That's how you survive when all around you are getting their heads sawed off.”

“No one believes what they're told. They believe what they uncover. What they dig up on their own. And the harder it is to find, the more they believe it when they do find it.”

“Rakkim would have loved to believed that… another reason he wasn't convinced.”

“People want to believe.”

“Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.”

“Man had to hang on to his pride.”

“The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.”

“Ignorance is fertile ground.”