Emile M. Cioran Appetite Quotations

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.