I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.