Michel De Certeau

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.

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.

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.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.