--- title: "5 French Quotes By The Invisible Committee" description: "5 French quotes by The Invisible Committee. Plus more from The Invisible Committee and more French sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/the-invisible-committee-36330_discipline_the-past-has-given-us-much-too-many-bad_202070.jpg" --- > [“The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/the-past-has-given-us-much-too-many-bad-answers-for-us-not-to-see/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed4/the-invisible-committee-36330_discipline_the-past-has-given-us-much-too-many-bad_202070.jpg) > [“To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation that even the sociologists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/to-call-the-population-of-strangers-in-the-midst-of-which-we-live/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/994/the-invisible-committee-36330_anarchism_to-call-the-population-of-strangers-in-t_326427.jpg) > [“We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/we-have-been-expropriated-from-our-own-language-by-television-from/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/the-invisible-committee-36330_anarchism_we-have-been-expropriated-from-our-own-l_1148346.jpg) > [“The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/the-west-is-a-civilization-that-has-survived-all-the-prophecies-of/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2f/the-invisible-committee-36330_death_the-west-is-a-civilization-that-has-surv_1509242.jpg) > [“The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/the-situation-is-like-this-they-hired-our-parents-to-destroy-this/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/the-invisible-committee-36330_anarchism_the-situation-is-like-this-they-hired-ou_2404249.jpg) ## Other authors on French ## More by The Invisible Committee > [“It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/it-s-useless-to-wait-for-a-breakthrough-for-the-revolution-the/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/the-past-has-given-us-much-too-many-bad-answers-for-us-not-to-see/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation that even the sociologists wonder if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/to-call-the-population-of-strangers-in-the-midst-of-which-we-live/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/we-have-to-see-that-the-economy-is-not-in-crisis-the-economy-is/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“No bonds are innocent in an age when holding onto something and refusing to let go usually leads to unemployment, where you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/no-bonds-are-innocent-in-an-age-when-holding-onto-something-and/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“Communism is the real movement that destitutes the existing state of things.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/communism-is-the-real-movement-that-destitutes-the-existing-state-of/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“The drone that even according to the police indeed did fly over Seine-Saint-Denis last July 14th is a picture of the future in much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/the-drone-that-even-according-to-the-police-indeed-did-fly-over-seine/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/we-have-been-expropriated-from-our-own-language-by-television-from/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“The West is a civilization that has survived all the prophecies of its collapse with a singular stratagem. Just as the bourgeoisie had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/the-west-is-a-civilization-that-has-survived-all-the-prophecies-of/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“Here lies the present paradox: work has totally triumphed over all other ways of existing, at the very moment when workers have become superfluous.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/here-lies-the-present-paradox-work-has-totally-triumphed-over-all/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“Revolutionary movements do not spread by contamination but by resonance . Something that is constituted here resonates with the shock wave emitted by something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/revolutionary-movements-do-not-spread-by-contamination-but-by/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/the-situation-is-like-this-they-hired-our-parents-to-destroy-this/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) > [“Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-invisible-committee/thirty-years-of-crisis-mass-unemployment-and-flagging-growth-and-they/) [The Invisible Committee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/the-invisible-committee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/french/the-invisible-committee/#itemlist", "name": "5 French Quotes By The Invisible Committee", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. 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