But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?

We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.