“Haeresis est maxima, opera maleficarum non credere” ~Malleus Maleficarum
(The greatest of all heresies is the disbelief in witchcraft)
“My goal is to always come from a place of love, but sometimes I just have to break it down for a motherfucker.” ~RuPaul
“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” ~Jacqueline Bisset
…(although with all due respect to the ever wonderful Ms. Bisset, I’d say the same holds true for men as well ~ Geoffrey)
“Keep pure your highest ideal; strive ever towards it;
let nothing stop you or turn you aside.”
~From The Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valliente
“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”
— Barry Hughart (Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was)
“Science is a method of talking about the Universe in terms that bind it to a common reality. Magick is a way of speaking to the Universe in words that it cannot ignore.” –Neil Gaiman
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” — Marilyn Monroe
“Don’t be pushed by your problems…be lead by your dreams” ~ Unknown
“In the Midst of Winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible Summer.” ~ Albert Camus
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
(NOTE: There is, at best, dark irony embodied in this quote given it’s source was a slave-holder. The sentiment remains true however. It is only by confronting the complexity and truths and folly’s and tragic failings of the past that we are able to learn from it move forward from it and appropriately engage with it and with our Ancestors and their legacies.)
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.” ~ Alfred Adler
“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.” ~ Goethe
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
-William Ellery Channing
“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment.” – Emerson
Chrysalis 
Athe Asatru Folk Assembly has the full support of the Pagan Veterans Headstone Campaign as well as Pagan Veterans of the United States of America in this. We won the right to have the Pentacle, now comes the Hammer and the Awen.
Charles Arnold, National Commander
Pagan Veterans of the USA
I have to wonder whether support for soldiers (soldiers, not warriors ; there is a difference) includes support for their questioning of where they are sent to fight, and whether they agree with the fight. Does support for soldiers include support for their decentralized independence, as would have been the case in days of old? Grassroots, county-up militias more approach the older idea of warriors, whilst soldiers bespeak more of Rome and its Imperium. There is no doubt that soldiers have a high sense of honor, discipline, work-ethic, and courage, and put themselves in service. Yet our support for these high values cannot remain uncritical, or we join the “support our troops” bandwagon that leaves no room for critique of wars being engaged in, which we always have a right, especially as heirs of a warrior tradition, to levy. Of course, the first critique of war often comes from the soldiers themselves, if they are allowed to speak. They do not want to be reviled for their service, but they are often willing to share inequities, injusticies, and what they would have done differently if they were not enthralled to a hierarchical command-structure and had greater unit-independence like the old comitati. So I would like to see more nuance and complexity in our support here, lest we turn arch-heathen support of completely-different style warriordom into uncritical rubberstamping of empire. We can support them, and critique the institutions that bind them, and the politics behind them, all at the same time. This is no contradiction.