Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

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.

Slow down to speed up. Anonymous

Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations you don't have a job.

Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible that is one is male and the other female.

After a while you learn that everything stops.

Dreams are there to be realized, not to be dreamed. To realize a dream, you have to stay steadfast in your strong will.

Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.