Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

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

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.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.