“Pour la Mafia, devenir une seule et unique société secrète utilisant les rites maçonniques présentait de nombreux avantages. Une cérémonie d'initiation inquiétante et une constitution mettant en préambule la punition des traîtres aidaient à créer la confiance au sein de l'oganisation; c'était là un bon moyen de faire monter le prix de la traîtrise parmi les criminels qui, sans cela, se seraient trahis les uns les autres sans la moindre hésitation.”

Cosa Nostra — La mafia sicilienne de 1860 à nos jours, 2004

Solitude et Société ('), 1870

Sur les Idées

Barbe-grise, 1964

Entretiens avec Jacques Ellul, 1994

To Have a Center

Among the varied influences that are ceaselessly engaged in shaping American ideas and molding American life, Freemasonry must, in all fairness, be conceded a prominent place. Its principles are scattered broadeast by our daily press; its labors for humanity are the constant theme of tongue and pen; its members are, in great part, our lawgivers, our judges, our rulers; even the presidents of our republic openly join its ranks; the educators of our youth in school and university are often its adherents, and encourage among their pupils societies which ape its secrecy and methods and prepare the young to become its zealous partisans in after life. To crown ail, Protestant ministers and bishops are its initiates and advocates, so that often not only the corner stones of our public buildings, but even those of Protestant churches, are laid by its officers and consecrated by its mystic

Chien Blanc, 1970