If the devil doesn't exist. . . how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
God did not die; he was transformed into money
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system
One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.
The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.
Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands. . . Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
I do respect Putin. I respect a lot of people. But that doesn't mean I'm going get along with him.
If the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton, the Japanese bases in the Pacific were captured on the beaches of the Caribbean.
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season.
Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care. " To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.