“Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.”

“There's more to being a human being than having your own way.”

“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”

“No other victims are more maligned than victims of psychic fraud. The embarrassment of being swindled plays right into the hands of phony psychics.”

“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.”

“If anything, Theory of the Subject is a work of Marxist philosophy that contains all of the contradictions reached by Marxism-Leninism, while being, at the same time, aware that these contradictions are contradictions insofar as they point to the necessity of a new rupture in revolutionary science.”

“I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy”

“Stop being a victim of your own circumstances”

“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.”

“If the people in this room were not citizens of the United States, if they were not citizens of any state, or of any sovereign government, and if we decided that we needed to, for our own protection, first beginning with safety—September 11th told us why we need each other for the sake of safety—form a government, we have to recognize, each one of us, that this government shall protect the right to life, and to liberty, and property of each one of us. No one of us can say that he deserves protection for the government to be formed, but not somebody else, or that somebody is entitled to more protection than anybody else. Anybody who demands more protection from the government than his fellow citizens won’t be accepted as a fellow citizen.”