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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
"The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men, only the clean can wash the grimy!"
"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."
"To Have Thousands Transformed In The Society Is To Lack Unity."
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."
"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."
"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."
"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."
"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."
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