Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.

Ensnared in his starvation, Chaplin-man is always just below political awareness. A strike is a catastrophe for him because it threatens a man truly blinded by his hunger; this man achieves an awareness of the working-class condition only when the poor man and the proletarian coincide under the gaze (and the blows) of the police.

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.