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.
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?
Man is the being whose project it is to be God.
The status of ‘native’ is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.