All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.