Quotes from Chantal Mouffe

All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion

a central task of democratic politics is to provide the institutions which will permit conflicts to take an 'agonistic' form, where the opponents are not enemies but adversaries among whom exists a conflictual consensus.

to think politically requires recognizing the ontological dimension of radical negativity.1 It is because of the existence of a form of negativity that cannot be overcome dialectically that full objectivity can never be reached and that antagonism is an ever present possibility.

Cuando las ideas y los afectos confluyen, las ideas adquieren poder.