We are who we are because somebody loved us.

You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.