“The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.”
“The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.”
“If attachment is an evil, we must look for its cause in the scandal of birth, for to be born is to be attached. Detachment then should apply itself to getting rid of the traces of this scandal, the most serious and intolerable.”
“In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something which is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...”
“It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.”
“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”