Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

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.

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.