If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

We have to understand that we are children of God who are called to overcome the world

He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life – pale ale and revolution – and assuredly he could not taste the one without dreaming of the other.

It almost made me long for the flying pig.--Percy

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!

What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word, the things you see with your inner eye.

My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.