Shocking Sayings

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it.

Anyone who attributes corporeality to the divinity is a heretic who has no share in the world to come.

Twenty years after I am dead, I shall be a despot, sitting in my chair with Dapple in my hand, and wearing one of the coats I wear now.

Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.

Many eminent criminals appear to me to be persons superior in many respects [...] to the average judge.

the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp.

[Ted] told me openly he wished me dead.

The Communist is the main enemy—the Jew.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

for well he knew a woman has no beard; hed felt a thing all rough and longish-haired.

License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory.

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.