Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

At the workroom lunch table, my friend and co-worker Bill was eating a really boring-looking sandwich. Karla: "Bill, don't you have any condiments on your sandwich?" Bill (without a pause): "You mean, am I practicing 'safe eating'?

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves red-handed, are groping for words... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me -- none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. ClichTs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.