For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

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 dream is free - to live it requires HUSTLE.

Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you but as God pleases. Then you will be free from confusion and thankful in prayer.

What Death protects can't be harmed and baby, you're the only thing I protect - Dank, Predestined

My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.

The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark.