Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

The soul is the prison of the body.

To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.