“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.”

Where there is power, there is resistance.

In civilizations without ships, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of corsairs.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

There is no glory in punishing.

With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.

I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

It’s amazing how people like judging.

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort, and pleasure.

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.

I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.

I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.

Find your light to spread happiness.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Light and darkness are equally as healing – when you sleep at night you recharge and daytime allows you to live out your life

You need the dark in order to show the light.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

What is to give light must endure burning.