The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.