Régis Debray Quotes

Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.

Régis Debray

The man of the future will be young or he will not be.

Régis Debray

There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

Régis Debray

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

Régis Debray