Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.