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.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

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

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things