People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.