In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

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.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

You're born and then you're on your own, you start having relationships, you're developing relationships to the world and your wider community, and then disappointing things happen.

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.