(October 20, 2017 at 12:17 am)Cyberman Wrote: Shades of Émile Zola:
'Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.'
Puts me in mind of the guy who climbed a huge Jesus statue because he wanted some miracle to cure his epilepsy, and he fell off.
Diderot was a little more direct:
'Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.'
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax