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

...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.