Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.

I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace
if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat

The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

Wife beating without alcohol is like a circus without lions.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.

Greek was nothing more than Sanskrit turned topsy-turvy.

Il parait après cela qu'il n'y a aucun fruit à tirer de la solution que nous proposons. [It seems there is no fruit to be drawn from the solution we offer.]

We renounce all your spectacles, as strongly as we renounce the matters originating them, which we know were conceived of superstition, when we give up the very things which are the basis of their representations. Among us nothing is ever said, or seen, or heard, which has anything in common with the madness of the circus, the immodesty of the theatre, the atrocities of the arena, the useless exercises of the wrestling-ground.

If there’s one thing extreme god-botherers of every stripe have in common, it’s that they don’t have any sense of humor at all where their beliefs are concerned.

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

The omelet called “race” has no existence outside the statistical frying- pan in which it has been reduced by the heat of the anthropological imagination.