« Faced with the surge of Silicon Valley, the state is stunned and tramples at the speed of a senator. Recent political debates are pathetic in relation to the issues we are talking about. There is an urgent need to renovate democratic leadership, which has become a prisoner of the tyranny of the short term, which proves incapable of thinking about the NBIC revolution. `Laurent Alexandre` »

« All democracies are at risk of slipping, either in anarchy or in tyranny. It's a grim prognosis, which goes back to Plato. In the 19th century, Tocqueville was no more encouraging, formulating a prophecy that our time seems to realize: democracy will produce individuals who will increasingly be afraid of their freedom and the instability of the world it sustains, they will feel increasingly fragile and insecure. Results they will demand ever more state intervention (the welfare state is insensitively a guardian state) and let install a soft despotism that it will rid them of the worry of being free. `Jean-Michel Besnier` »

« Unfortunately, the totalitarianisms of the 20th century exploited the slippery slope on which democracies abandon themselves when they fail to guard against the political resignation of their members. They went very far, pretending to create, from scratch, a new man who would be rid of history, since it will have been put in his head that he has reached perfection...- `Jean-Michel Besnier` »