Michel De Certeau Quotes


"Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious."
- Michel De Certeau
(Related: Politics, Churches, Religious)

"Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others."
- Michel De Certeau
(Related: Work, Dying, Man)

"The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual."
- Michel De Certeau
(Related: Freedom)