Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.