A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments. Gilles Deleuze More Quotes by Gilles Deleuze More Quotes From Gilles Deleuze As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists. Gilles Deleuze psychiatristnotionresponsible Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie? Gilles Deleuze harnesszombiedrug Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate. Gilles Deleuze essencejudgingway Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object. Gilles Deleuze useordinaryway When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego. Gilles Deleuze egoevilorder The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time. Gilles Deleuze guiltlawheart One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values. Gilles Deleuze motifsableproblem Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal? Gilles Deleuze voiceanimalfirsts Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends. Gilles Deleuze psychologyprinciplesrevenge Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality Gilles Deleuze levelsstatesfiction What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces. Gilles Deleuze smoothforcespace Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression Gilles Deleuze oedipusfashionmen
