Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past.

There are also people who lived in either side of Germany, but who never had or have any relationship with the other side whether it was former East or former West Germany.

If we blunt Russian efforts now to be aggressive, we may be pleasantly surprised by the policy options that become available to us, in terms of working with a better Russia.

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. “Visible ones? No, I think that’s it.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand