Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.