Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Powerless rage can work miracles.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?

An apt aphorism half kills, half immortalizes.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

We looked into each other's eyes. I saw myself, she saw herself.

The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

Pants get shiny even on a throne.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

Do not make gods in your own images.