We Did Not Lack Modesty—on The Contrary—but

The Fact Is, That What De Sade Was Trying To Bring To The Surface Of The Conscious Mind Was Precisely The Thing That Revolted That Mind . . . From The Very First He Set Before The Consciousness Things Which It Could Not Tolerate.

It Is Human Agitation, With All The Vulgarity Of Needs Small And Great, With Its Flagrant Disgust For The Police Who Repress It, It Is The Agitation Of All Menthat Alone Determines Revolutionary Mental Forms, In Opposition To Bourgeois Mental Forms.

Thought Does Not Ennoble Us And Neither Does It Differentiate Humans From Other Animals.

The Warrior's Nobility Is Like A Prostitute's Smile, The Truth Of Which Is Self-interest.

We Did Not Lack Modesty—on The Contrary—but Something Urgently Drove Us To Defy Modesty Together As Immodestly As Possible.