# Quote — Jack Vance, The Face

> If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another’s mind.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Face](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face.md)
- Page: 17
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Face_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face/if-religions-are

## More from this book

> For many years my nerves were like electric wires. Then I discovered the first axiom of human accord: I accept each person on his own terms. I keep a close tongue in my head; I offer opinions only when so solicited. What a remarkable change! Dissension vanishes, novel facts emerge, digestion flows like a wide river.

p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face/for-many-years.md)

> The seconds marched past, traversing that mysterious boundary which separates future from past.

p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face/the-seconds-marched.md)

> “What are you doing here?”
>
> “I’m looking at you, and grateful for the opportunity.”

p. 124 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face/what-are-you.md)