« Kindness? Merciful is called the God of Muslims, and that is a good sign. This does not prevent him from reserving his favors for his own: us first. Many Muslim charitable institutions care for and relieve Muslims. The Jewish God is interested in the Jews, period. Achilles takes pity on Priam. Joshua has no compassion for his enemies. The one of the Christians, less exclusive, has broader views. He wants all men to be saved, including Mongolians. No St. Vincent de Paul, no Mother Teresa in the religions of the Law. At home, the charity is practiced within the group. If an Orthodox Jew falls on an abandoned child at the corner of a road, the man in him will instinctively rescue him, but he will have to triumph over the Orthodox: is he from the Synagogue or not? The Muslim will also look at his crotch to inform his decision, and the Christian, whether the child is boy or girl, circumcised or not, will immediately put him in the sisters. Leviticus prohibits the crippled and the disabled from sacrificing in the Temple; Jesus invites women, the crippled and the lepers to his table. From a monad god without doors or windows, he makes a god world, clear-way. It's more airy, less discouraging. »

« The "socialist" left in France, with the focus replacing the socialism that was, in the 1980s, "social Europe", ended up making its own the law of the market (privatization of public services, dismantling of the welfare state, deregulation of the economy) and to commune in the dogma, unreasistic, of free and undistorted competition. »

« (p. 380, chap.12, Dialectic of pure television) The setting of images of the world comes the day when it makes the world an image; from the story a TV movie; and a dubious fight, like all, a western like any other. By trivializing the extraordinary and sublimating the banal; euphemizing disasters and atrocities; by weaving the events, all stealthy and shimmering, equally spectacular and by the way, more or less indifferent; by promoting a consumption at first playful, soon dreamlike, and finally pornographic acts and works, facts and misdeeds, games and disasters, the effect of reality ends up derealizing the news. `...` Fictioning the real and materializing our fictions, tending to confuse drama and docudrama, real accident and reality-show, television once again tosses us theses in antithesis, "from the window of the world" to the "wall of images", from music to noise and vice versa. And this indecisable oscillation is perhaps its ultimate truth. A factor of certainty and uncertainty, the pinnacle of transparency and the height of blindness, a fabulous machine for informing and misinforming, it is in the nature of this machine to be able to tip its operators from the greatest credibility to the greatest discredit, in the blink of an eye, like us viewers, from rapture to disgust. »