Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .