In Sum, Thought And Reflection

Freedom Is Completely Without Meaning Unless It Is Related To Necessity, Unless It Represents Victory Over Necessity.

Thinking Has Become A Superfluous Exercise... Purely Internal, Without Compelling Force, More Or Less A Game.

The Individual, By Means Of The Discipline Imposed On Him By Sport, Not Only Plays And Finds Relaxation From The Various Compulsions To Which He Is Subjected, But Without Knowing It Trains Himself For New Compulsions. ... Training In Sports Makes Of The Individual An Efficient Piece Of Apparatus Which Is Henceforth Unacquainted With Anything But The Harsh Joys Of Exploiting His Body And Winning.

In Reality This Is The Very Reverse Of What We Are Told About The Biblical God, Who Opens Up Freedom For Us, Who Lets Us Make Our Own History, Who Goes With Us On The More Or Less Unheard-of Adventures That We Concoct.

I Believe That The Biblical Teaching Is Clear. It Always Contests Political Power. It Incites To "counterpower," To "positive" Criticism, To An Irreducible Dialogue (like That Between King And Prophet In Israel), To Antistatism, To A Decentralizing Of The Relation, To An Extreme Relativizing Of Everything Political, To An Anti-ideology, To A Questioning Of All That Claims Either Power Or Dominion (in Other Words, Of All Things Political), And Finally, If We May Use A Modern Term, To A Kind Of "anarchism" (so Long As We Do Not Relate The Term To The Anarchist Teaching Of The Nineteenth Century).