Gilles Deleuze Quotes on Politics
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher, one of the most influential figures of post-structuralist continental philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Gilles Deleuze on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it. We lack creation. We lack resistance to the present.”
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Attributed to Gilles Deleuze:
“There is no ideology and never has been.”
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“A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.”
from L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze: G comme Gauche (“Gilles Deleuze's Alphabet Book: Left-wing Politics”), 1988–1989. -
“from L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze: G comme Gauche (“Gilles Deleuze's Alphabet Book: Left-wing Politics”), 1988–1989.”
A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments. -
“Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible , and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistence which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?”
from Dialogues with Claire Parnet, p. 147 [emphasis in original]. -
“A book is a small cog in a much more complex, external machinery. Writing is a flow among others; it enjoys no special privilege and enters into relationships of current and counter-current, of back-wash with other flows — the flows of shit, sperm, speech, action, eroticism, money, politics, etc. Like Bloom, writing on the sand with one hand and masturbating with the other — two flows in what relationship?”
from I have Nothing to Admit