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.

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.

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.

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.