“That’s one thing about these religious boys—they reckon that if they are on God’s side, then the enemy must be on the devil’s, and so they have no qualms about giving it to ’em hot and strong.”

—  Brian W. Aldiss , book Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 112)

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