“It’s amazing how people like judging.”

I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.

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.

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

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.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

That power is found in the people. I am able to overcome any kind of challenge so long as I am working together with the people.

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.