The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Quote by Andre Malraux

Topics: Self Hatred Quotes

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random...

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love...

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love...

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes...

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes...

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing...

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing...

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West...

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a...

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a...

Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation...

Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation...

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve...

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve...