The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.