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In the eyes of authority – and maybe rightly so – nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
What is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays (2009)
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.
State of Exception (2005)
Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.
Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (1999)
God didn't die, he was transformed into money.
Matter that does not remain beneath form, but surrounds it with a halo.
The Coming Community (1993)
[E]ase names perfectly that "free use of the proper" that, according to an expression of Friedrich Hölderlin's, is "the most difficult task."
The Coming Community (1993)
Love is never directed toward this or that property of the loved one (being blond, being small, being tender, being lame), but neither does it neglect the properties in favor of an insipid generality (universal love): The lover wants the loved one with all of its predicates, its being such as it is.
The Coming Community (1993)
Whatever singularity, which wants to appropriate belonging itself, its own being-in-language, and thus rejects all identity and every condition of belonging, is the principal enemy of the State. Wherever these singularities peacefully demonstrate their being in common there will be Tiananmen, and, sooner or later, the tanks will appear.
The Coming Community (1993)