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

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.

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.

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

In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for.

They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

Truth has to persist unaffected, in the past, present and future. That which is absent in two states, how can it be true.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.