Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

He's caused the Chelsea defence no amount of problems.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times