Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) — this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

God did not die; he was transformed into money