After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.