We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.