When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and the true conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a false one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its truth: the Leftist emancipatory position.

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

The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.