Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.

Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to very general and universal categories and formal structures. But thought is something other than societal relations.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have nothing in common with the political power, and as if they are independent of it, while they are not.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.