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

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

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

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

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.