« A striking example (there is no shortage of them) can be found in the international economic order - I mean so-called trade agreements. The public, as the polls make very clear, is strongly opposed, on the whole, to the course of things, but this opposition fails to translate into fact. Elections offer no way out because decision-making centres - the minority of the wealthy - come together to establish a particular form of socio-economic order. This prevents the problem from finding its expression. The things that are being discussed only affect voters from afar: issues of people or reforms that they know will not be implemented. That is what we are discussing, not what people are interested in. »

« What remains of democracy must now be seen as the right to choose between goods. Business leaders have long stressed the need to impose on the general public a "philosophy of futility" and a "life without objective" in order to "focus on superficial things, and in particular on what is fashionable". Overwhelmed from an early age by such propaganda, people might be able to accept a submissive and meaningless existence, and forget the ridiculous idea of taking charge of their own affairs. »

« One could suggest that much of the learning theories were constructed from artifacts, analyzing an "antinatturel" mode of learning under experimental conditions built to remain outside the body's inherent abilities; no doubt, they allow us to obtain elegant curves of learning, but they tell us very little about the organisms studied. Page 193 »