Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

I don't use the word minority because there is nothing minor about me.

Walk straight ahead look straight ahead don't stop don't pose sharp turns be confident love yourself.

The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces.

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.