Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

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.

You don't need my testimony to know God is Good. I pray u have a testimony for yourself.

What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.