Michel de Certeau Quotes

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become 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.