I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.
Georges BatailleThe need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
Georges BatailleThe sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Georges Bataille