Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Hope is the leash of submission.

The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise.