Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.