It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

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.

We don't meet anyone by chance.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.

My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

We didn't have any relationship at all with Trump.