The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

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

there is no glory in punishing

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.