I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.