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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."
Author:     E. M. Cioran Category:     Critics and Criticism

"Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil."
Author:     E. M. Cioran Category:     Evil

"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
Author:     E. M. Cioran Category:     Fanatics and Fanaticism

"A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed."
Author:     E. M. Cioran Category:     God

"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
Author:     E. M. Cioran Category:     Injustice

"No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."
Author:     E. M. Cioran Category:     Martyrdom

"Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise."
Author:     E. M. Cioran Category:     Oppression

"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
Author:     E. M. Cioran Category:     Rejection



  


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