The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.