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

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

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

Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and, to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other.