« In the 20th century, the public relations industry produced an abundant literature that provides a very rich and informative set of recommendations on how to instill the "new spirit of the time", creating artificial needs or (I quote) "regulating public opinion as an army inrégiment its soldiers", by eliciting a "philosophy of futility" and inanity of existence. , or by focusing human attention on "the more superficial things that make up the bulk of fashionable consumption" (Edward Bernays). If this succeeds, then people will accept the meaningless and enslaved existences that are their lot, and they will forget this subversive idea: to take control of one's own life. »

« Representative democracy, as it exists in the United States or Great Britain, would be criticized by an anarchist from the school I have just mentioned, for two specific reasons. Firstly because the state has a monopoly on a power that is centralized there, secondly, and critically, because representative democracy is limited to the political sphere and does not intervene in any meaningful way in the economic field. The anarchists of this lineage have always believed that democratic control of productive activity is at the very heart of all human liberation or, in the same vein, of any valid democratic practice. That is to say that as long as individuals are forced to rent themselves in the market to those who want to use them, as long as their role in production is reduced to that of anacillary tools, striking elements of coercion and oppression remain, making democracy a limited notion, even meaningless. »

« According to Port-Royal's theory, the superficial structure corresponds only to the sound - the bodily aspect of language; but when the signal is emitted, with its superficial structure, a corresponding mental analysis intervenes, in what we might call the deep structure, a deep structure directly connected not to the sound but to the sense. »