Nothing in human life is inherently private.

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.

If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.

... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.