The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

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.

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.

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.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

You will be my souvenir in American summer, when all I can think about are Parisian springs.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

"Safety First" is "Safety Always."

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

The close-up says everything.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.