Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Politics: a Trojan horse race.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Not every boomerang returns, some choose freedom.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The first requisite for immortality is death.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When no wind blows, even the weathervane has character.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Satirists, be careful. In the 1931 film by Rene Clair “Vive la Liberte” a song says, “Work is freedom.” In 1940 the…

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Do not make gods in your own images.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Telling lies does not work in advertising.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec