"But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong."

"Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine."

"Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world."

"If the pope, the bishops, and the priests were not subject to the worldly and coercive power of the prince, the authority of the prince would be challenged, and thus, with it, an order would be challenged that, as had been demonstrated previously, had been decreed by God."

"And 'poor’ does not so much mean owning a palace or not; it means, rather, keeping or renouncing the right to legislate on earthly matters."

"the given language is power because it compels me to use already formulated stereotypes, including words themselves, and that it is structured so fatally that, slaves inside it, we cannot free ourselves outside it, because outside the given language there is nothing. How can we escape what Barthes calls, Sartre-like, this huis clos? By cheating. You can cheat the given language. This dishonest and healthy and liberating trick is called literature."

"Literature says something and, at the same time, it denies what it has said; it doesn’t destroy signs, it make them play and it plays them. If and whether literature is liberation from the power of the given language depends on the nature of this power."

"Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is."

"A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful."