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

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.

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

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.

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

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

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.