George Bataille Quotes (4 Quotes)

Respect is really only a devious route taken by violence.

The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign to remind us constantly that death, the rupture of discontinuous individualities to which we cleave in terror, stands there before us more real than life itself.

In essence, the domain of eroticism is the domain of violence, of violation.

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.