Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

We are gods with anuses.

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.