“If there's no God, all is permitted.”

“Without God all things are permitted.”

“For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.”

“So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?''He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a stone, but there's pain in the fear of a stone.”

“Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will talk of socialism or anarchy, of the transformation of all humanity on a new pattern, which all comes to the same thing, they're the same questions turned inside out.”

“Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.”

“One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!”