Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.
I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.
Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.
If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.
There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.
I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.
Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.
Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
I am a man, Jupiter, and each man must invent his own path.
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.
Two people can form a community by excluding a third.
All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.