"Are you Earthseed? Do you believe? Belief will not save you. Only actions Guided and shaped By belief and knowledge Will save you. Belief Initiates and guides action— Or it does nothing."

"All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards—long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards."

":And we say"

":Of ourselves—"

":Mere echoes"

":Without intent,"

":Thus, without thought,"

":An obvious lie."

":That we’ve embraced and defended"

":And because we cannot admit"

":Because we’ve defended it"

":And at last to embrace it"

":Because we’ve said it"

":Then to defend it"

":Almost by reflex"

":May be to say it,"

":And again and again"

":Even an obvious lie"

":To hear and to see"

":Repetition and pride are the keys to this."

":We see what we’re told that we see."

":What we’re permitted to see."

":What we’re told that we think."

":What we hear others say."

":All too often,"

"If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it."

"We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again. So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name."

"Now I have been raped. It happened twice. Once on Monday, and again yesterday. It is my Christmas gift from Christian America."

"When vision fails Direction is lost. When direction is lost Purpose may be forgotten. When purpose if forgotten Emotion rules alone. When emotion rules alone, Destruction...destruction."

"Beware: Ignorance Protects itself Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows."

":::into slavery."

":::and those you love"

":::is to sell yourself"

":To be led by a tyrant"

":::to be lied to."

":::is to ask"

":To be led by a liar"

":::to be stolen."

":::your most precious treasures"

":::is to offer up"

":To be led by a thief"

":::who control the fool."

":::by the opportunists"

":::is to be led"

":To be led by a fool"

":::by all that the coward fears."

":::is to be controlled"

":To be led by a coward"

":::with wisdom and forethought."

":Choose your leaders"