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

The game is worthwhile in so far as we don’t know what will be the end.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratize popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells.

We are entering the age of infinite examination and of compulsory objectification.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

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.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

When you’re strong and good, then you’re Bad.

Don’t feel bad for wanting to keep your family safe.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

There’s ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Bad decisions, good intentions.