Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.