“In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.”

"Three Versions of Judas"
Ficciones (1944)

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

Steve Turner (1949) British writer

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 193

“The story of their gallantry came to epitomize a spirit of courage, duty and self-sacrifice.”

Steve Turner (1949) British writer

Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 13

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Judas was not a monster, though his act was monstrous; he was a man, the twelfth part of humanity, and his sin was that he could betray for thirty pieces of silver, like any common informer. Jesus was uncommon, not Judas.”

Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer

"The Hue and Cry"
The Writing on the Wall and Other Literary Essays (1970)

“By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 66
The Divine Milieu (1960)

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“With my usual sublime self-confidence, I rode roughshod over the objections.”

Emily Hahn (1905–1997) American writer

In The New Yorker, April 15, 1967

“Self-sacrifice is not encouraged by the Satanic religion. Therefore, unless death comes as an indulgence because of extreme circumstances which make the termination of life a welcome relief from the unendurable earthly existence, suicide is frowned upon by the Satanic religion.”

Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible (1969)

“Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.”

Jack Welch (1935) American executive: General Electric CEO

Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.

“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling — it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

Actually from Frederic Harrison's essay "Ruskin as Prophet", in his Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates (1899).
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“In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.”

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