His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings |
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it |
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. |
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him. |
Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man / it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country. |
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all. |
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. |
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none. |
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. |
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. |
it is the chief business of art to touch and to move and to do this by getting close to 'nature.' |
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all |
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey |
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest |
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. |