Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

If you want peace, prepare for the war.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?