Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

We have the riots we deserve.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.