Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

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

Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.