“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSocialMoralFashionAngerInstitutionsFoundationAbsurdDespiseConventionsObligedCowardlyFormality Book:The Torture Garden Source: The Torture Garden
“The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.” HumansLyingSufferingUniversePassionSocialJusticeFlowerEternalGloryGardenHatredInstitutionsInstrumentsGreedTortureHeroismImmenseMonstrousHideousInexorableHuman SufferingSocial Institutions Book:Torture Garden Source: Torture Garden
