In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

I’m going to kiss you.”Another whimper, but she didn’t jerk from his hold. “I know, and that’s an extremely bad idea.

Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love...it's: Wow, life is good.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.