“Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.”

“Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.”

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”

“From the Throne to the earth is the creation of God Most High; everything but his existence is his action. He brought them into existence from pure non-being.”

“If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil.”

“… of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.”

“Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.”

“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

“Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.”

“In fact, the most difficult thing for a director like me is to find the right people; it is enough to put in a group a man or a woman or a wrong person that everything is compromised.”