Quotes from Henry Grady Weaver

The pagan may lose confidence in one particular kind of authority. When his faith begins to waver, he is more likely to change the name of the imaginary authority – or to assume that it controls everyone except himself – than to accept the nonpagan view that human beings are self-controlling.

In all cases, such beliefs rest on the pagan superstition that the individual is not responsible for his acts; that he must depend on these superhuman persons who have both the right and the power to control the lives of people assumed to be their natural inferiors.

a thing is not property unless it is owned; and without ownership, there is little incentive to improve it.

Whoever injures another injures himself because he decreases the opportunities for gain that come through co-operation and exchange.