Obsidian Quotes

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests - put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again. (PZ Myers)
The iron ice stung like a goad, Slashing the torn shoes from my feet, And all the air was bitter sleet. And all the land was cramped with snow, Steel-strong and fierce and glimmering wan, Like pale plains of obsidian. - And yet I strove - and I was fire And ice - and fire and ice were one In one vast hunger of desire. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn't even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she's nuts. Nuts, I tell you. View quote
Karen Marie Moning
Conservatives - Republicans - are socialists. True, they may desire to hold you down atop the stone altar and cut your still-beating heart out with an obsidian knife for a set of entirely different reasons - national security, Judaeo-Christian traditions, 'common' decency - than the liberals or 'progressives' or Democrats do, but to you, the important part is cutting your heart out with an obsidian knife, not whatever excuse they may offer for doing it. This is why, no matter which political party happens to be in power, ordinary people - whose thinking and hard work maintain this civilization each and every day - never seem to get an even break with regard to their individual liberty or holding onto the fruits of their labor. It's why the late philosopher Robert LeFevre referred to Democrats and Republicans as 'Socialist Party A' and 'Socialist Party B'. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information. View quote
Neil Gaiman