« We target "violence on television," neglecting the violence of the sacred scriptures. No doubt, in videopheres, do images have more impact than words, but how many under sixteen years would still have access to the literary and religious treasure of humanity if the CSA's "youth" signage ("designed to alert viewers to the inadequacy of certain television programmes for young audiences") applied to our textbooks? It is to be welcomed that the Advertising Audit Office does not subject the primitive scenes of our symbolic universe (Oedipus, Medea, the Atrids, Romulus and Remus, Erin, the Golden Calf, the conquest of Canaan, etc.) to the same criteria as our television spots. »

« Primo Levi reports that during a s e l e c tion for the gas chamber he heard his neighbour whispering a prayer to "Joseph". He began to understand that he was the little father Stalin, not the father-in-law of Jesus. »

« The strange animal, which prefers to give meaning to the world, through gesture and speech, rather than taking it for what it is, thereby testifies to a constitutive ability to paranoia, fantasy, system spirit, collective hallucination, and other originalities as devastating as they are creative. The enchantment of the world, by the way, means its ensauving no less than its embellishment. It is the abyss of the lived by the symbol that puts us simultaneously below and above the animal. Below by dangerousness, and above by creativity. The mammal capable of self-sacrifice is ipso facto to the murder of the other, and if it had not been able to exterminate (its congener, without biological necessity), it would not have been able to believe to pray and fast. His vulnerability specific to the suggestions of the supersensitive (of which the divine is a variant) makes the human primate brilliant, unpredictable, extravagant, but thus formidable for those of his fellows who do not attach to things the same meanings as him (and who are the majority). »