'It is odd seeing a person lying or sitting or running or hobbling away right in front of you, and for you not to turn aside, but drive straight on, over him. Odd. You do not feel anything. You are only aware that you cannot feel. Perhaps some other day, in a week, a month, a year, fifty years. But not just at that moment. There is no time for feeling; the whole business is just something that is happening, going on, pictures and noises, most actely perceived and immediately shoved automatically to one side to be analysed later.'
- Sven Hassel, Legion of the Damned

'Faster and faster until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.'
- Hunter S. Thompson

'As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.'
- Gilles Deleuze, 1972 (Negotiations, p24)

'If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.'
- Michel Foucault, 1983

'In song and in dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying into the air, dancing. His very gestures express enchantment. Just as the animals now talk, and the earth yields milk and honey, supernatural sounds emanate from him, too: he feels himself a god, he himself now walks about enchanted, in ecstasy, like the gods he saw walking in his dreams. He is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: in these paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the primordial unity.'
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

'To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.'
- Michel Foucault, 1981

'A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established, unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based.'
- Michel Foucault, May, 1981

'Madness is a necessary port of call on the voyage to enlightenment.'
- Me, 2002

'In some remote corner of the universe, bathed in the fires of innumerable solar systems, there once was a planet where clever animals invented knowledge. That was the grandest and most mendacious minute of "universal history".'
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873 (published posthumously)

'A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous."'
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

'Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.'
- Michel Foucault, May 1984

'The sage as astronomer.- As long as you still feel the stars as being something 'over you' you still lack the eye of the man of knowledge.'
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil