We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen.' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

People cannot do what they cannot think, and they cannot think what they cannot say.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.