“In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen.”

“While there are two ways of contending, one by discussion, the other by force, the former belonging properly to man, the latter to beasts, recourse must be had to the latter if there be no opportunity for employing the former.”
Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim, cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum, confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.

“The collapse of European communist regimes will not entail disillusionment with the substance of socialism under other names until the latter is identified and linked to the catastrophic experience of the former. There is no reason to believe that this has occurred.”

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. Espousing the former is not defending the latter.”

“There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.”

“Creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the former gives rise to the latter.”

“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”

“There are intellects that shine and there are those that sparkle. The former illuminate matters, the latter obscure them.”

“The Tantrik approach to self-realization is different from the Vedic approach. The former looks upon the Goddess as Shakti, energy, to be experienced while the latter looks upon the Goddess as Maya, delusion, to be transcended. The former is more sensory, the latter less so.”

“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”