Camille

“So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular and can be indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world.”
― Stanislav Andreski, Social sciences as sorcery

“Non seulement les lettres pures, mais aussi les utopies de la Renaissance, sa conception même du monde étaient profondément imprégnées de la perception du monde carnavalesque et en revêtaient souvent les formes et les symboles.”
― Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World

“In the whole of the world and of the people there is no room for fear. For fear can only enter a part that has been separates from the whole, the dying link torn from the link that is born. The whole of the people and if the world is triumphantly gay and fearless. This whole speaks in all carnival images...”
― Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World

“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon