“It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.”

It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don’t imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and insight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.

Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.

Government is the right disposition of things.

The individual is the product of power.

Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses.

From a Christian point of view, human reason is madness compared to the reason of God, but divine reason appears as madness to human reason.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

As far as the laws of existence are concerned, there is no good and bad, no crime and punishment. It is just that for every action, there is a consequence.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

I had field experience, a vocabulary, and a criminal mind. I was a danger to myself and others.