it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

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

We are freer than we think.