Il Regno e la Gloria. Per una genealogia teologica dell'economia e del governo. Homo sacer, II, 2

• "More original -- or better, more decisive -- than the opposition between theology and politics, spiritual power and profane power, is the glory within which they coincide. . . . The theology of glory constitutes, in this sense, the secret point of contact through which theology and politics continuously communicate and exchange parts with one another" (pp. 193-194).
• "But the center of the machine is empty, and glory is nothing but the splendor that emanates from this emptiness, the inexhaustible kabhod that at once reveals and veils the central vacuity of the machine" (p. 211).
• "...It is not necessary to share Schmitt's thesis on secularization in order to affirm that political problems become more intelligible and clear if they are related to theological paradigms. On the contrary, we have tried to show that this comes about because doxologies and acclamations in some sense constitute a threshold of indifference between politics and theology" (p. 229-230).
• "The throne is empty not only because glory, though coinciding with the divine essence is not identified with it, but also because it is in its innermost self-inoperativity and sabbatism. The void is the sovereign figure of glory" (p. 245).
• "Political economy is constituted, in other words, as a social rationalization of providential oikonomia" (p. 282).