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

The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

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