Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.