“The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge.”

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”

“Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?”

“Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.”

“I don't want to live in your world in which 1 percent of the children are born defective."My answer was rather brutal, I fear. "It is not my world,”

“Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.”

“Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.”

“I fear lies more than death. Simply, because even the ideas of heaven and hell might fall within its domain.”

“Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride or laziness of mind.”

“In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.”