Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this!

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank.