Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the subject of enunciation issues a subject of the statement, in other words, a subject bound to statements in conformity with a dominant reality

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.