“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.”

Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist

“Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

“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.”

Ruzbihan Baqli (1128–1209) Persian poet, mystic, and Sufi

“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.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

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

Yukio Mishima book Confessions of a Mask

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

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian

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

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

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

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

“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.”

Rocco Siffredi (1964) Italian pornographic actor, director, producer and entrepreneur