The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

I have a rendezvous with life.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.

When I was young, I loved black men.

Practice non-action. Work without doing.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.