In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

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.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Lips may lie, but the heart always tells the truth.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy

I've been living out of a suitcase for over a decade.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.