The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

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

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that people are universal - are the result of some very precise historical changes. All my analyses are against the idea of universal necessities in human existence. They show the arbitrariness of institutions and show which space of freedom we can still enjoy and how many changes can still be made.