In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.